?Tasked with protecting the United States from missile threats, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) a direct descendent of Ronald Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative has come under intense criticism from groups claiming that the cost of such a service isn justified by the effectiveness of shooting down a missile with another missile. Controversy has also arisen over the role of testing in securing Congressional funding.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a national environmental watchdog organization, brought this issue to the fore during a December 5 missile launch from Santa Barbara County Vandenberg Air Force Base,
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The target missile was launched from a state owned complex on Alaska Kodiak Island shortly after noon on December 5, followed 15 minutes later by an MDA missile from Vandenberg. According to the MDA, this marks the eighth successful test of a ground based interceptor of the 14 that have been attempted.
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AShaw, I attended many conferences on missile defense a while back found out quite a few interesting things.
The MOST striking was the Patriot original design was for a direct hit on an incoming missile.
The 1 time they "missed" it was actually intentional ( a "fly by") w/ a far reaching purpose.
That what led to the design where a radar proximity fuse triggers the Patriot explosive charge near the incoming target thus spraying it w/ a cloud of titanium cubes.
These cubes w/ their force are intended to beat the crap out of the incoming bogie knock it off course, but leave it intact enough for analysis by military intel.
That was a Army Corp of Engineers directive it worked in the 1991 Gulf War (contrary to the media reports).
But there was the Bahrain incident where a loose warhead from an intercepted Iraqi Scud hit some barracks killed 28 of our best.
That why the new PAC3 has a longer range as well as a much improved guidance system to kill the missile farther into enemy territory.
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