National Missile Defense

Quality:

United States national missile defense - nationwide missile defense program of the United States. Article “National Missile Defense” in German Wikipedia has 53.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.82 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

In June 2025 the article “National Missile Defense” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “National Missile Defense”, its content was written by 159 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 852 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1287 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #140 in October 2007
• Global: #1485 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1343 in September 2009
• Global: #7745 in March 2022

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) United States national missile defense		89.4438
2	Russian (ru) Противоракетная оборона США		89.1538
3	German (de) National Missile Defense		53.5848
4	Chinese (zh) 国家导弹防御系统		46.7992
5	Ukrainian (uk) Протиракетна оборона США		45.0468
6	Polish (pl) Ballistic Missile Defense		43.5968
7	French (fr) Défense antimissile des États-Unis		40.6967
8	Persian (fa) دفاع موشکی ملی ایالات متحده		35.793
9	Arabic (ar) الدرع الصاروخي الأمريكي		21.9675
10	Spanish (es) Escudo Antimisiles		20.3079

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) United States national missile defense		1 993 011
2	Russian (ru) Противоракетная оборона США		921 252
3	Polish (pl) Ballistic Missile Defense		536 750
4	German (de) National Missile Defense		476 358
5	Spanish (es) Escudo Antimisiles		317 736
6	French (fr) Défense antimissile des États-Unis		227 396
7	Chinese (zh) 国家导弹防御系统		212 081
8	Arabic (ar) الدرع الصاروخي الأمريكي		132 144
9	Vietnamese (vi) Hệ thống phòng thủ tên lửa quốc gia Hoa Kỳ		57 699
10	Ukrainian (uk) Протиракетна оборона США		47 422

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) United States national missile defense		14 632
2	Spanish (es) Escudo Antimisiles		1 717
3	Russian (ru) Противоракетная оборона США		1 489
4	German (de) National Missile Defense		1 299
5	Chinese (zh) 国家导弹防御系统		1 227
6	Polish (pl) Ballistic Missile Defense		931
7	French (fr) Défense antimissile des États-Unis		804
8	Arabic (ar) الدرع الصاروخي الأمريكي		747
9	Persian (fa) دفاع موشکی ملی ایالات متحده		625
10	Ukrainian (uk) Протиракетна оборона США		386

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) United States national missile defense		271
2	German (de) National Missile Defense		159
3	Russian (ru) Противоракетная оборона США		126
4	French (fr) Défense antimissile des États-Unis		91
5	Polish (pl) Ballistic Missile Defense		52
6	Spanish (es) Escudo Antimisiles		24
7	Ukrainian (uk) Протиракетна оборона США		22
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hệ thống phòng thủ tên lửa quốc gia Hoa Kỳ		21
9	Danish (da) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense		19
10	Korean (ko) 국가 미사일 방어		18

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) National Missile Defense		2
2	Polish (pl) Ballistic Missile Defense		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Протиракетна оборона США		2
4	English (en) United States national missile defense		1
5	Chinese (zh) 国家导弹防御系统		1
6	Arabic (ar) الدرع الصاروخي الأمريكي		0
7	Czech (cs) Národní raketová obrana		0
8	Danish (da) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense		0
9	Spanish (es) Escudo Antimisiles		0
10	Persian (fa) دفاع موشکی ملی ایالات متحده		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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