Test of newest U.S. missile defense technology will simulate attack by Iran [View All]

[Thor_MN]

Source: CNN.com

Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. military's Missile Defense Agency will practice protecting the United States from a simulated Iranian missile attack next month in an exercise using the agency's newest missile-killing technology, Pentagon officials said Friday.

At the same time, the agency will be testing its new "Capability-2" technology, with upgraded software and sensors loaded inside an interceptor missile that will be fired at the fake Iranian missile.

The Capability-2 technology is designed to eventually replace the existing hardware the United States has in its two missile defense bases in California and Alaska, according to Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/18/us.missile.test/index.html

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Iran doesn't have a missile capable of reaching the US. A Ballistic missile coming from the Marshall Islands is not going to have the same trajectory as a mythical missile from Iran, but the defense industry is going to try to whip up support for it's money pit by invoking the bogey man.

This crap needs to be defunded.