JP 3-01 Countering Air and Missile Threats - Defense Innovation ...

Executive Summary
air-, and sea based forces/capabilities for those DCA
operations required to execute that plan.
Passive Air and Missile
Defense (AMD)
Commanders at all levels
are responsible for
planning and executing
appropriate passive AMD
measures.
Active AMD
Passive AMD provides individual and collective protection
for friendly forces and critical assets and is the
responsibility of every commander in the joint force. It
includes measures, other than active AMD, taken to
minimize, mitigate, or recover from the consequences of
attack aircraft and missiles. Passive measures do not
involve the employment of weapons, but they do improve
survivability.
Under the counterair framework, active missile defense is
integrated with active air defense as a DCA operation.
Generally, the same capabilities used for missile defense
are capable of air defense. The important factors are the
enemy missile threat and the conservation of missile
defense assets to prevent that unique capability from
being exhausted against aircraft when an alternative air
defense strategy and tactics could be used against airbreathing
threats. Active BMD involves direct defensive
action taken to destroy in flight BM threats. Active missile
defense systems are primarily SAM systems and their
supporting infrastructure. Although BM launches are
detected and warnings are sent to the JFC with the
predicted impact point, engagements are only possible once
organic missile defense radars detect them.
CONCLUSION
This publication provides doctrine for joint counterair
operations and protection against air and missile threats
across the range of military operations.
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