摘要: Progress-and change-since Desert Storm. Nearly a decade ago, Army Patriot interceptors fought the world's first active defense battles against ballistic missiles. Since the Gulf War, the Army and the other services have steadily p... 展开 Progress-and change-since Desert Storm. Nearly a decade ago, Army Patriot interceptors fought the world's first active defense battles against ballistic missiles. Since the Gulf War, the Army and the other services have steadily progressed toward the goal of fully integrated joint theater missile defense (TMD). One Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) has been forward- deployed in Europe and another in Korea, providing those commanders in chief (CINCs) a limited in-theater capability to receive, process and disseminate space-based infrared sensor information on tactical ballistic missile launches. The Army has established the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, commanded by a general officer, to perform theater-level air and missile defense planning, integration, coordination and execution functions for the Army Forces/ Joint Force Land Component Commander. The range of the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is being extended, forcing our adversaries to pull their missile launchers and associated command and control systems further back from our forces. The Army is demonstrating the warfighting value-added of an aerial sensor, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS), to detect and track low-flying cruise missiles and to act as a communications relay. Today, continental United States (CONUS)-based computer models and simulations virtually train TMD forces deployed overseas. Most recently, the Army has successfully conducted hit-to-kill intercepts of ballistic missiles with both Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) and Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), proving the technology required for complete negation of chemical and biological warheads. 收起