The Importance...
After the Cold War, the idea of nuclear deterrence or "nuclear-nations" has become mainstay in the processes of foreign/domestic policy and the stances on the geo-political landscape concerning superpower nations. But in this day-and-age, possessing the weapons to obliterate humanity carries only 50% of nuclear influence. The ability for a nation to defend itself from such threats has gained massive traction in the years following the complex squabbles of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The capability to destroy thermonuclear missiles in-flight has overtaken many countries' budgets and military interests for the sheer destructive capacity of a missile landing on sovereign soil and killing many of a nations' civilian population...
The Missile Defense Agency - Department of Defense
Part of the DOD Sub-Commitee
The Missile Defense Agency's mission is to develop, test and prepare for deployment of a missile defense system. Using complementary interceptors, land, sea, air and space-based sensors, and battle management command and control systems, the planned missile defense system will be able to engage all classes and ranges of ballistic missile threats. Our programmatic strategy is to develop, rigorously test, and continuously evaluate production, deployment and operational alternatives for the ballistic missile defense system. Missile defense systems being developed and tested by MDA are primarily based on hit-to-kill technology. It has been described as hitting a bullet with a bullet - a capability that has been successfully demonstrated in test after test.
AEGIS Naval Ballistic Missile Defense System
With the addition of watercrafts and warships into the GTA Online universe, the growing presence of missile threats against vessels, aircrafts and strategic land-based targets is ever-present. And the threat of nuclear deterrence in games such as ARMA only increase the need for a inter-linked defense network against supersonic, thermonuclear or anti-vehicular missiles is becoming a necessity. The yachts in Grand Theft Auto have the capability and capacity to engage a missile defense network that protects against aircraft and unknown watercrafts and kill-vehicles. In a fleet setting, the umbrella created by a cluster of warships and man-portable missile systems and MANPADS can virtually create an inpenetrable field of security.