BMD, in from the Sea: SM-3 Missiles Going Ashore

25-Aug-2010 15:42 EDT

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Land-based SM-3 concept
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Early intercept program; European politics; SAR report; Aegis Ashore contract. (Aug 24/10)

In July 2008 the US Missile Defense Agency was considering a land-based variant of the naval SM-3 Standard missile – largely due to specific requests from Israel. The SM-3 is hosted aboard US Navy ships for for ultra-long range air defense, including ballistic missile defense. Israel currently fields the medium range Arrow-2 land-based ABM system, supplemented by Patriot missiles for point defense. The Arrow has performed well in tests, however, and an order for more was placed as recently as February 2008. What could Israel’s rationale have been for an SM-3 request?


In the end, Israel seems to have bowed out, but the USA thought about it and decided that adding SM-3 missiles on land was a really good idea. There’s a big role for them in the USA’s future missile defense architecture

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