Russian Missiles vs. American Missiles and the Ships that Carry Them, Accuracy?

We have Evolved and Russia has Evolved...And we Share our Space Programs With Them. Yet in light of the Russians firing from Caspian Sea into Syria....is it Time to Wonder....Just Who has the best Weapons and Technology...or is there a NEW EQUAL FORCE that is RISING in the GLOBAL SCENE? What are the Positives & Negatives of Equal Force Power going forward for the FUTURE?

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U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Building an Aegis Fleet
U.S. Navy missile defense, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, Part 5


The heart of Aegis – and the U.S. Navy’s fleet air defense capabilities – is the Aegis Weapons System. Consisting of the AN/SPY-1 phased-array radar, the Mk 99 fire-control system, the Weapon Control System, the Command and Decision suite, and Standard missiles, Aegis can simultaneously detect and track hundreds of threats and friendly/neutral aircraft and engage multiple targets simultaneously. When combined with the MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS), the AN/SQQ-89 underwater combat system, command-and-control, and self-defense weapons and systems, the weapons system acts as the central component of the broader Aegis Combat System.

Now the Aegis system has an important additional role; ballistic missile defense. And this new mission is being pursued with the same “single-minded dedication to the pursuit of technical excellence” as the original core Aegis system. The Aegis BMD Program Directorate continues to provide the nation with new and critical capabilities derived from a system first conceived nearly five decades ago. A hybrid Navy-MDA organization, Aegis BMD, has adapted decades of technological advances to the continually-evolving demands of ballistic missile defense. This team delivered the Aegis BMD weapon system and SM-3 missiles ahead of schedule, and has continued to implement a stream of combat system and missile upgrades. But this move into a new mission area had a long gestation period.

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/u-s-navy-missile-defense-building-an-aegis-fleet/

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The Next Act for Aegis
By: Sam LaGrone
May 7, 2014 5:45 AM • Updated: May 7, 2014 10:09 AM


The U.S. Navy’s Aegis program was born as the solution to a physics problem: Given that hostile variable-geometry wing Soviet Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers travel at speeds approaching Mach 2, what would a ship-based radar and missile system need to do to hurl an object into the air to intercept an object flying at almost twice the speed of sound?

The Navy’s answer took to sea in 1983 when USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) — an adapted version of the Navy’s tried and true Spruance-class destroyer —commissioned into the service with one of the largest air-search radars ever seen on a warship at the time.

Thirty years after Ticonderoga, the basic components of the Aegis system on cruisers and destroyers have remained largely the same — the SPY-1 radar and the contents of vertical launch systems — but the threats have gotten faster and deadlier.

http://news.usni.org/2014/05/07/next-act-aegis