So.....Missle Test Fails, It Is Not The End Of The World

We can expect that there will be hollering, protesting and complaints about the money lost due to missile defense especially in light of the recent failure.  Those who are against the system will testify that it will not work even though Israel had great results with its Iron Dome program. 

To make us safe, we must have a missile defense program especially with crazy countries like North Korea testing rockets. Add to that Iran with its ambitions for nuclear weapons, can it be long that they too go looking for new delivery systems?

If the current technology is lacking, instead of dropping the program, our leadership should look elsewhere for new ways to destroy incoming missiles. It is a must!

Conservative Tom

Pentagon: US Missile Defense Test Fails

Friday, 05 Jul 2013 08:56 PM

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America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.
The miss represented yet another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.
The test's objective was to have an interceptor, launched from Vandenberg air base in California, knock out a long-range ballistic missile fired from a US military test site at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.
But "an intercept was not achieved," US Missile Defense Agency spokesman Richard Lehner said in a brief statement.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive review to determine the cause or causes of any anomalies which may have prevented a successful intercept," it said.
The anti-missile weapon has run into repeated technical problems, with tests delayed after two failures in 2010.
The United States has 30 of the ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, at a cost of about $34 billion. They are supposed to counter the potential threat posed by North Korea, which has tried to develop long-range ballistic missiles.
The Pentagon wants to deploy an additional 14 ground-based interceptors to bases in Alaska, at a cost of about $1 billion, also in response to what Washington deems a growing threat from North Korea.
Some lawmakers also are pushing to open a new missile defense site on the country's East Coast, in case Iran or other adversaries obtain long-range missiles.
Critics of the missile defense program are sure to seize on the test result as further proof that the system faces insurmountable technical hurdles.
© AFP 2013

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