Strategic Missile Defense

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SMD
Pronunciation
/strəˈtiʤɪk ˈmɪsəl dɪˈfɛns/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Military

Examples in Context

  1. China holds that no state should deploy overseas missile defense systems that have strategic missile defense capabilities or potential, or engage in any such international collaboration.
  2. As an indispensable part of the Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense ( BMD ) System, the Space Early Warning System ( SEWS ) is a highly integrated and high-precision optical-mechatronic system.
  3. The idea for the strategic missile force came in2007, when the National Defense College suggested forming a new directorate to better manage imported missiles and multiple rocket launchers.
  4. President Bush says the two sides have pledged to find a solution, and notes that in the strategic framework signed at the Sochi summit both back the notion of an expanded missile defense network.
  5. At present time when the strategic structure of political and military posture all over the world is rapidly changing, the cruise missile, as one of the main weapons, will play an important role in developing national defense, economy and science and technology.

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