Navy Area Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (Navy Area TBMD)

The Navy Area Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TMBD) program represented the lower tier of a broader theater missile defense (TMD) capability. This program, also known as Navy Area Defense, was designed to take advantage of the U.S. naval presence worldwide and built upon the existing AEGIS /Standard Missile infrastructure. The global and rapid deployment of naval vessels was planned to allow a naval TMD capability for protection of nearby land-based assets or provide...