boost-phase

As Noah noted earlier today, one major boost-phase program is already in the crosshairs: the laser-equipped Boeing 747 that is supposed to zap missiles out of the sky as they rise from the launch pad.

Wired Top Stories Nathan Hodge 2009

She, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), restored $150 million to Pentagon boost-phase missile defense programs, $48 million for future missile defense systems - including space sensors, $12 million more for sea-based sensors, and language to allow $160 million for the highly controversial European missile defense plan.

DEMOCRATS DO IT AGAIN - THIS TIME IT'S "MISSILE DEFENSE" 2007

According to the Russians, the Topol-M has high-speed solid-fuel boosters that rapidly lift the missile into the atmosphere, making boost-phase interception impossible unless one is located practically next door to the launcher.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2005 Archives 2005

If in fact we worked on out with the Russians that we could amend the ABM treaty to allow a boost-phase intercept -- that's a fancy phrase for saying when someone goes to launch a missile that you shoot before it gets high and fast, you shoot it from behind, like a heat-sinking missile and kill it, well, that kind of system would not threaten the existing arsenals in China and/or in Russia.

CNN Transcript May 1, 2001 2001

There's a real question -- terminal intercept is the most difficult kind of ABM system and we should have been exploring all these years other things like boost-phase intercept.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Clinton Delivers Speech on National Missile Defense - September 1, 2000 2000

I've been suggesting that the administration should have been looking at boost-phase and actually space-based use of lasers all along, but they've opposed it.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Clinton Delivers Speech on National Missile Defense - September 1, 2000 2000

And theater missile defense, for a variety of technical reasons, cannot deal with an ICBM -- or at least we're not sure, we don't have any reason for confidence that we could develop a system of, say -- just for example, since it's been in the news -- theater-based boost-phase intercept, in anything like the time frame in which this threat is maturing.

Press Briefing By Deputy Secretary Of State Strobe Talbott ITY National Archives 2000

In addition, the Administration stopped the plan to expand the only boost-phase missile defense program left-

The Foundry James Carafano 2010

In addition, the Administration stopped the plan to expand the only boost-phase missile defense program left-

The Foundry James Carafano 2010

While air-launched boost-phase intercept (BPI) seems viable for the Americans to take down

Alert 5 alert5 2010