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| Yet another BMD success you won't hear about |
| 2005-12-14 |
| Al-Reuters was the only MSM article I could find at all. Not even Fox. The United States successfully tested a Boeing Co.-managed missile defense system aimed at thwarting a limited, long-range ballistic missile attack, but did not use a live target, the Pentagon announced. Boeing said in a statement that the interceptor will be flown against a live target in subsequent tests. A ground-based interceptor missile was launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands against a simulated target, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said late on Tuesday night. The simulation was based on a hypothetical missile launch from Kodiak, Alaska, using data from previous launches, said the agency, known as MDA. In full-fledged interceptor tests of the so-called Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System, the system has successfully shot down five live targets in 10 tries. The latest test was designed chiefly to evaluate the performance of the interceptor missile's rocket motor system and Raytheon Co.-built "exoatmospheric kill vehicle," the bit designed to smash into the target warhead and pulverize it in space, MDA said. It also successfully tested, among other things, silo support equipment, the agency said. The flight test on Tuesday validated the system's ability to track, acquire and provide the interceptor with the data for a "hit-to-kill" intercept, Chicago-based Boeing said. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #2 Here around Guam the space lasers and missle trails are still going every which way but loose. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-12-14 23:57 |
| #1 Well, YEAH! That's because everyone knows Star Wars was a Reagan fantasy, and a Bushhitler attempt to...wazzat again? Waste money to starve the poor? Sumptin' like dat! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-12-14 21:03 |