scholarly journals The Development of Poland’s Air Defense System: The Operational Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Eugeniusz CIEŚLAK
Keyword(s):  
High Intensity ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
Operational Capabilities ◽  
Medium Range ◽  
New Generation

The article discusses operational context for the development of Poland's air defense system. The assessment focuses on air defense operations in high intensity conflict. Recommendations include setting a realistic level of ambition in the field of air defense and increasing operational capabilities through modernization of its combat assets. The priority proposed for Poland’s air defense system is to introduce a new generation of short range surface to air missile systems and then to develop medium range air and missile defense capabilities.

scholarly journals Threat Asymmetry and Transition in Deterrence: Technical Assessment of India’s Ballistic Missile Defense Shield

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Furqan Khan ◽  
Khadijah Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Technical Assessment ◽  
The Cost

The global change in perception following the Cold War from deterrence by punishment in the form of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) to deterrence by denial has multiplied the utility of the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). India’s willingness to acquire and develop the advanced BMD shield is inspired, especially by Reagan’s Star Wars and the global shift in using it as an instrument of deterrence by denial. But as the application of its offensive-defensive paradox, India is raising a multi-layer air defense system to enhance its freedom of action and to acquire impunity in carrying out what New Delhi believes as its ‘limited war’ strategy against Pakistan. However, despite having a number of air defense systems in place including the recently acquired advanced S-400 air defense system, India is unable to shield itself completely from the counter-force or counter-value strikes by Pakistan as evident by the Balakot debacle. This is not only because India lags behind in BMD technology but also because of its inability to afford a comprehensive pan-national BMD shield. Therefore, the paper argues that, India’s attempt to build a multi-layer air defense system, rather than ensuring balance of power, destabilizes it and the delicate deterrence in place. This is because the threat asymmetry allows Pakistan to develop advanced nuclear capabilities including BMD evading delivery vehicles like MIRV as the offensive firepower to communicate the threat as an effective deterrence. Resultantly, the employment of BMD in South Asia disturbs strategic parity, fractures deterrence, drags down nuclear threshold and hence raises the cost of conflict between Pakistan and India with an elevated threat of annihilation.

scholarly journals MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLISH SECURITY

Politeja ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (5 (50)) ◽  
pp. 295-322
Author(s):  
Robert WĘŻOWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Location ◽  
Compromise Solution ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
System A ◽  
A Priority

MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLISH SECURITY The purpose of the article is to present the multifaceted issue that is missile defense in the context of Polish safety. The fact that Poland is a member of NATO, but also its geographical location and the nature of potential security risks, mean that its position in terms of missile defense is not equivalent to that of other countries. In the case of Poland, we are dealing with plans to create a broadly understood air defense system; a compromise solution, the result of irreconcilable requirements, in which missile defense will be just one of many tasks rather than a priority.

scholarly journals Air defense planning for an area with the use of very short range air defense sets

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-151
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Pietkiewicz ◽  
Adam Kawalec ◽  
Bronisław Wajszczyk ◽  
Marcin Szugajew
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Heuristic Method ◽  
Optimal Planning ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Feasible Points ◽  
Command And Control System

This paper presents a heuristic method of planning the deployment of very short-range anti-air missile and artillery sets (VSHORAD) around an area ('protected area') in order to protect it. A function dependent on the distance between the earliest feasible points of destroying targets and the centre of the protected area was taken as an objective function. This is a different indicator from those commonly used in the literature, and based on the likelihood of a defense zone penetration by means of an air attack (MAA): the kill probability of the MAA and the probability of area losses. The model constraints resulted directly from the restrictions imposed by real air defense systems and the nature of the area being defended. This paper assumes that the VSHORAD system operates as a part of a general, superordinate air defense command and control system based on the idea of network-centric warfare, which provides the VSHORAD system with air intelligence, air defense plans, and combat mission specifications. The presented method has been implemented. The final part of the paper presents the computational results. Keywords: optimal planning, air defense system, area installation protection, deployment of very short range anti-air missile and artillery sets (VSHORAD)

Test and Evaluation of the Ballistic Missile Defense System

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Michael ◽  
Philip E. Pace ◽  
Man-Tak Shing ◽  
Murali Tummala ◽  
Joel Babbitt
Keyword(s):  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Test And Evaluation ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense

scholarly journals Role of the CSTO in Strengthening Regional Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Rusakovich
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
State University ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Military Exercises ◽  
The Military

In 2021, Russia and Belarus are planning to hold a record number of exercises. In particular, large-scale strategic maneuvers "West-2021" will be held on the territory of Belarus. The focus on the western borders is not accidental: according to the military ministers of the two countries, the situation there is not calm. At the level of the CSTO, NATO is active in Eastern Europe in building up the missile defense system and increasing the intensity of military exercises. According to Secretary General of the organization Stanislav Zasya, the confrontational course of the alliance creates dangerous preconditions for a new arms race and the alliance is forced "to take adequate measures. Andrei Rusakovich, professor of Belarussian State University, explained in an interview with Eurasia.Expert why Russia and Belarus are increasing military cooperation and how cooperation within the CSTO fits into these tasks.

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