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Today, the demand in the US Army for IBCS, an integrated air defense and missile defense system of a new generation, continues to grow, which is to some extent due to the armed conflict in Ukraine, according to the American military–industrial company Northrop Grumman, which is the manufacturer of these weapons systems. This is reported by Defense News.
It is worth noting that initially the integrated air and missile defense control system was developed in order to protect the airspace of the United States, as well as deter threats of the use of missile weapons against the country. However, then it was decided to equip these complexes with a guidance system consisting of an improved all-round radar station (radar) as a replacement for the outdated ground-based mobile air defense and Patriot missile defense systems.
Thus, it is designed to combine not only radars and launchers to replace the Patriot, but also to become a kind of core of an integrated air defense system capable of processing data from all possible sources, including fighters.
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By the way, in the European Union, Poland became the country that acquired the Patriot PAC-3+ air defense system (an upgraded version of the Patriot air defense system) together with the aforementioned air defense and missile defense combat control system. Besides Warsaw, Germany, Romania, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark and Sweden have already expressed their readiness to receive IBCS. Orthrop Grumman has already demonstrated to all these European states how such a system works last year.
Poland's plans also include the use of IBCS to implement the Narev program for the acquisition of a British-made short-range SAM battery. It also intends to acquire a CAMM family of anti–aircraft missiles with an active homing radar.