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The U.S. Aegis program has grown internationally, to the point that today more than 20 percent of the global Aegis fleet is non-American. South Korea has three destroyers with SPY-1D(V) radar on Aegis-equipped ships. Here, the USS George Washington (CVN-73) steams with the ROK navy destroyer Sejong the Great during a bilateral exercise.
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The Long Reach of Aegis

Combining Aegis with the new Joint Strike Fighter will enhance coverage and lead to a global honeycomb of defensive capabilities.
By Robbin F. Laird
January 2012
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Originally designed as a Cold War tool to bolster fleet defense against a challenging Soviet Navy, the Aegis program has since the 1970s evolved and morphed. Among the factors that have exponentially increased the core program’s capabilities, the software and microelectronics revolution has played a major role. Targeting precision, C4ISR, and missile technologies have all developed, and today Aegis is a key element in global missile defense. Of central relevance not only to the program but to global security, Aegis coupled with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will provide unprecedented modular flexibility at sea for U.S. command authority and our allies as they shape responses to inevitable future crises. (In the interest of full disclosure, my employer, Gryphon Technologies, provides technical and engineering professional services to the Aegis BMD program.)

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