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MDAA Alert:
The Reign from Spain
March 27, 2020

The USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) departs Naval Station Mayport, Florida to its new homeport
at Naval Station Rota, Spain on March 21, 2020. (Photo: DVIDS - U.S. Navy photo
by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard)
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Dear Members and Friends,
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As China threatens the United States on international transit in the Taiwan Straits
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and President Putin justifies the strength and superiority of Russian power over
the Western liberal democracies [[link removed]],
it is clear that the near peer competitors are seeking to take advantage of the
effects of Coronavirus.
In this critical time for the United States of fighting the pandemic while assuring
our national security and that of our allies, the USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) [[link removed]]
left Mayport, Florida to homeport in Rota, Spain, becoming the first Aegis Baseline
9 ship permanently assigned to Europe and joining three other U.S. Aegis ballistic
missile defense (BMD) ships already stationed there. Aegis Baseline 9 represents
a complete missile defense capability from in space down to the surface of the
sea in enabling Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) that will be able to shoot down
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block
IIA [[link removed]]
interceptor, short-range (SRBMs) to intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs)
with the SM-3 Block IB [[link removed]],
maneuverable and complex hypersonic cruise missiles with the SM-6 [[link removed]],
and with the force multiplying capability to use engage-on-remote (EOR) on all of
these interceptors with remote sensors from other ships and on Aegis Ashore sites
in Romania and in the future operational Poland site. This tremendous capability
exponentially adds to the BMD of Europe and denies area access to the Russian threat
as the mobile sea-based capability can be best positioned on the seas around Europe
to compliment the current and future Aegis Ashore sites in Europe, in best defending
the population of Europe. In the near future, all four and now possibly six, U.S.
Aegis BMD ships homeported in Rota, Spain will be all Baseline 9.

"It's precisely in line with our request for two additional destroyer and what I'm
also proud to report is with the support of this committee we've been in a position
to improve and mature the infrastructure at Rota. If you ask me to accept 2 more
destroyers tomorrow, we actually possess the infrastructure at Rota to be able
to house those two additional destroyers, a reflection of the value of the funds
for deterrence." - General Tod Wolters, Commander of U.S. European Command and
NATO Supreme Allied Commander, at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on
"United State European Command United States Transportation Command [[link removed]]"
on February 25, 2020.

The undercurrent driving the U.S. maritime surge to Europe is the growing threat
from Russia to NATO that aligns with the 2018 United States National Defense Strategy.
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Of which the 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) [[link removed]]
tasked the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy to make all U.S. destroyers
in the fleet BMD capable.

"The Navy and MDA will jointly develop a plan to convert all Aegis destroyers to
be fully missile defense capable, including against ballistic missiles, within
10 years. This plan will be delivered to USDA&S, USDR&E, and USDP within six months
of the release of the MDR." - 2019 MDR Task 4.

There are 69 U.S. Aegis destroyers and 39 of them and five U.S. Navy cruisers are
BMD capable, but are operating on three different Aegis Baselines (4.2, 5, and 9)
and only 16 of these destroyers have the most current and capable Baseline 9 to
allow simultaneous air and missile defense from space to sea and EOR. There are
currently four destroyers undergoing modernization to be refitted with Baseline
9 and a plan to have two to three modernized per year of the remaining ships. Additionally,
the new Aegis Flight IIA destroyers are being constructed with Baseline 9 at a rate
of one to two a year at Pascagoula, Mississippi and Bath, Maine. What remains for
some of these Baseline 9 selected ships is to upgrade their SPY-1 radars with a
Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) plus software adjustments to keep them paced with the
continually emerging threat as recent testing shows SPY-1 remains capable and relevant.
In 2023, the first Flight III ship, the USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), will be commissioned
with a new Aegis Baseline 10 and the new SPY-6 radar that will then become the standard
of all new Aegis destroyer ship construction. It is of importance to note that all
of these Aegis Destroyers are working testbeds for machine learning and artificial
intelligence that is evolving to the future generational dominance of the United
States Navy and its Allies.
"What makes ours the world's greatest and most effective navy is the fact that we
act in concert with our NATO allies and partners. It is only in this way that we,
and all like-minded allies and partners, maintain peace-by unmistakably and constantly
deterring Russian aggression." - Admiral James Foggo III, now Commander of United
States Naval Forces Europe, and Alarik Fritz in the June 2016 U.S. Naval Institute
article "The Fourth Battle of the Atlantic. [[link removed]]"

As Russia and China continue to become more aggressive and assertive in their challenges
to world order around the globe, it is vital for the U.S. to maintain and grow the
most capable and strategically asymmetrical naval force that can surge and deter
with dominance. The Aegis BMD destroyers are a key component to the U.S. having
a strong Navy to meet these challenges around the world since they are globally
deployable and anchors for our own A2/AD to prevent near peer aggression. Having
all the U.S. Navy's destroyers BMD capable in ten years exponentially increases
the commonality for better integration and stronger defenses. Yet, the proposed
cuts in the U.S. Navy's Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal to the life extension programs
for the oldest destroyers and five less Flight III Aegis destroyers will greatly
reduce the Navy's capacity to meet these global challenges.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any
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only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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for more information.
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