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C-PSAD-81-2 1 (1980-11-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNCLASSiFIED REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER rPOTENTIAL OF THE LoAD GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING THE MX MISSILE SYSTEM DIGEST An objective of U.S. national defense policy is to maintain, a force of land-based interconti- nental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of surviving a Soviet attack in numbers adequate for a retaliatory strike. Because of concern over the survivability of the Minutenan mis- siles, the Department of Defense (DOD) plans to deploy a new ICBM system, called MX, in multiple, protective shelters. To offset additional increases in the Soviet threat to U.S. land-based ICBMs which are possi- ble under the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II Treaty, the initia! tX system could be expanded by deploying more MX missiles and shelters. If the treaty is not ratified or is canceled and the Soviet threat continues to increase, DOD could either expand the MX system and/or defend the existing MX missiles with a ballistic missile defense system, assum- ing that the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty had been modified or terminated. To provide the option for defending U.S. ICBMs, the Army is conducting a preprototype demon- stration of a ballistic missile defense system called the low-altitude defense (LOAD) system. The demonstration program's goal is to provide the capability for deploying LoAD soon after the preprototype demonstration is completed. Deploying LoAD would require terminating or modifying the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which sharply limits the United States' and Soviet Union's development and deployment of ballistic missile defense systems. The LoAD preprototype demonstration represents a major effort within the Army's ballistic missile defense program. The Army plans to Tear She. Upon removal, the report i Cover date should be noted hereon, C-PSAD-81-2 UN4CLASSIFIED ,#')1 V , -)f I

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