A scheduled flight test of the long range US missile defense system ended in failure when the "clay pigeon" target failed to reach the destination.
According to the Missile Defense Agency, the target launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska failed to reach the defended area.
As a result, the Ground-Based Interceptor, which would have come from the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site, located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California was not launched.
“The target did not reach sufficient altitude to be deemed a threat, and so the Ballistic Missile Defense System did not engage it, as designed,” said Air Force Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering, III, Missile Defense Agency Director.
“There is always a risk of this occurrence since we are flying old Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) motors in our targets,” he added, “and we have initiated a target modernization program, within our existing budget, which should mitigate these risks for the future. A target will be brought forward from a test scheduled for next fall and we will attempt to repeat this test this summer.”
The cost of the missile defense system is estimated at between 20 and 30 billion dollars.
Embarrassed officials are conducting an extensive investigation to determine the cause of the malfunction.
re: Missile defense
“The target did not reach sufficient altitude to be deemed a threat...." Key message here to missile-senders: Keep your missiles flying low and they'll hit their target(s).
Thank you for your comment
Dear racuouschewbaccus,
Thank you for your comment.
The fact is that homeland security does not simply begin at the water line. That is the last place you want to stop problems, not the first place. Much of what we do in homeland security begins even before a person sets foot on an airplane in Europe or a container is loaded on a cargo ship in Asia. We work internationally to identify potential threats well before they reach our shores, strengthen our perimeter defenses, and then partner with the international community to build resiliency into our shared systems of commerce and travel so that we can have these systems secure without undermining the fundamental fluidity which is the basis of the 21st century global system.
As such we have found your comment a serious threat to national security. You are advocating tactical nuclear threats against Amerika.
Secret Service agents will visit you soon for questioning. Then you will be handed over to the CIA, who will use "enhanced interrogation techniques" to establish that you are a paid member of the Canadian Al-Qaeda. Then we will send you on a round the world trip through our secret renditions program.
Thank you for your corporation. You really have no choice.
Best Regards,
Michael Chertoff
Ballistic missiles
Maybe you should look up how a ballistic missile works. It's very difficult to keep them low. If they're too low, they don't get to where they're going, which is kind of what the article is talking about, eh?
Hmmm
“There is always a risk of this occurrence since we are flying old Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) motors in our targets,”
Well hopefully the ICBMs that are loaded and ready to defend our country in the event of nuclear attack are using a more up to date (or at least better maintained) motor.
Freedom of Speech
Dear racuouschewbaccus,
This is the United States of America! Along with the tested, tried and trued Constitution of America, the Rules and Regulations of the Federal Communications Commission and The Communications Act prohibiting the FCC from censoring broadcast material and from making any regulation that would interfere with freedom of speech, we welcome you and your opinions and the right to state them and make them known!
The attempt at impersonating Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, would be a much more punishable act than what you have stated in your post. This impersonator has attempted to usurp your rights and completely misinterpret the Homeland Security's power and purpose.
Sir, please fell free to speak/type your opinion on this open, public forum and let us true Americans learn from your observations.
This person was not the real Secretary of Homeland Security, please read up on the true Secretary of Homeland Security and you will find him to be one of the good ol boy’s that knows how to lay out the BS if and when needed.
He has been taught by the best and knows how to listen to the opinions of others, weather they are right, wrong or just down right ignorant. He has been taught by his first grade teacher that everyone has the right to have an opinion and to state that opinion without fear of punishment from the government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
Thank you and have a good day.
Kindest regards:
First Amendment of the greatest Country in the world.
Protecting the Citizens of The United States Of America at your service, sir!
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