The Defense Intelligence Agency has released an unclassified report outlining the missile threats a sophisticated United States missile defense system should be able to counter.
The agency said Tuesday the missile threat assessment, titled “Golden Dome for America: Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland,” underscores the growing scale and sophistication of missile threats facing the U.S. homeland over the next decade. It also predicts the continuous advancements in both conventional and nuclear-capable delivery systems of potential adversaries.
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6 Missile Threat Categories
The report categorizes these missile threats and inventories into six categories, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, two various types of hypersonic weapons, land attack cruise missiles and fractional orbital bombardment systems.
