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Pentagon: US missle defense test will simulate attack by Iran

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

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

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.

Previous tests have been focused on a missile trajectory that mimics an attack from North Korea, but the January test will have a trajectory and distance resembling an intercontinental ballistic missile launch from Iran.

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/18/us.missile.test/index.html
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10 comments // Pentagon: US missle defense test will simulate attack by Iran

  • ryan8566
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      ryan8566  

    • Iran has been stating that they have the capacity to strike Israel, California with each test. this sounds like a smart response to Iran to observe our potential to that, knowing that bush is in his cellar playing video war games, and we will not attack unprovoked, or
      'pre-emptively'.

    • 3 years ago
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  

    • Hopefully, this wont be anything like the test NORAD was running on 9-11-01, and those missiles they are using to practice protecting us actually do, rather then get called off for hours.

    • 3 years ago
  • ProjectBat
  • thewhompus
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • thewhompus:

      Yeah and here comes the faked demonstration of Star Wars that still doesn't work as Raytheon stocks rise again.

      The Can't Miss Missile
      April 2, 2003
      It was touted as the best defense money could buy against Iraqi Scuds and other deadly Missiles. But as the Fifth Estate's Bob McKeown demonstrated on our February 5 program, the Patriot missile turned out to be a bust in 1991. And now in the early days of the war in Iraq, it seems as if the Patriot has revealed one more fatal shortcoming. It is having trouble telling the difference between friend and foe. A whole new take on a cautionary tale about military hardware and military obfuscation.

    • 3 years ago
  • MetalestDragoon
  • remanns
  • csmonut
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      csmonut  

    • Well...if Bush was in office, we'd probably already be at war with Iran. At least Obama thinks and asks questions.
      As long as humans reside on this planet, there will be war. No getting around it. But one day Mother Nature will get pissed, and what is left of the human race will once again be killing each other with sticks and stones.

    • 3 years ago
  • CalPal
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      CalPal  
    • csmonut:

      Or perhaps...

      "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

      Maybe we'll kill ourselves instead, and Mother Nature will clean up the mess, rather than Earth turning itself against us.

    • 3 years ago
  • csmonut
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