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| US to focus missile defense drill on Iran-attack scenario |
| 2009-12-15 |
| A top Pentagon official said Monday that a US missile defense drill will simulate an Iranian attack, a departure from the usual scenario of a North Korean attack, according to Reuters. "Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario. This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario," Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, head of the US Missile Defense Agency said at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington. According to O'Reilly, an Iranian attack would be more challenging than a North Korean attack because a missile fired from Iran would reach the US "more head on than from the side," and therefore relatively faster. During the test, expected to cost about $150 million scheduled for January, the US would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a mock-Iranian missile which would be fired from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. So much for the National Security Strategy of Preemption. Appears we'll be taking the first round of bullet. More at the link. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 ION PRAVDA > TENSIONS FLARE IN THE KURILS [Moscow worried that JAPAN's SDF's are locally, techs superior to Russ forces in the RFE-Siberia]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-15 17:58 |