Pentagon to ask Congress for $4.5 billion in extra missile defense funding

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-usa-military-missile-idUSBREA1605T20140207

Exclusive: Pentagon to boost missile defense spending by over $4 billion: sources
By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON | Thu Feb 6, 2014 9:26pm EST

(Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department plans to ask Congress for $4.5 billion in extra missile defense funding over the next five years as part of the fiscal 2015 budget request, say congressional sources and an expert.

Nearly $1 billion of that sum will pay for a new homeland defense radar to be placed in Alaska, with an additional $560 million to fund work on a new interceptor after several failed flight tests, said Riki Ellison, founder of the nonprofit Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, and two of the congressional sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The Pentagon's request for added funding comes despite continued pressure on military spending and cuts in other arms programs, a sign of Washington's growing concern about missile development efforts by North Korea and Iran, the sources said.

The White House plans to send its fiscal 2015 budget request to Congress on March 4.

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1. At least it would be for defense. That would be a nice change.

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2. The High Tech Maginot Line in the sky.

What a waste of money.

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3. Maybe they know something we don't?

Maybe we need these things. Maybe for something we can't even see now. Why else?

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4. America's Sacred Cow demands feeding.

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5. What was that missile we launched recently with the big squid that read "Nothing escapes our reach"?

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6. NROL-39