The Pentagon’s $10-billion bet gone bad

[Zorro]

Leaders of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency were effusive about the new technology.

It was the most powerful radar of its kind in the world, they told Congress. So powerful it could detect a baseball over San Francisco from the other side of the country.

If North Korea launched a sneak attack, the Sea-Based X-Band Radar — SBX for short — would spot the incoming missiles, track them through space and guide U.S. rocket-interceptors to destroy them.

Crucially, the system would be able to distinguish between actual missiles and decoys.

http://graphics.latimes.com/missile-defense/

[valerief]

1. Success! Boeing and Raytheon are 10 billion richer! And that's ALL THAT MATTERS.

[justhanginon]

2. I'm sure that you could add some congresspersons

campaign coffers to that amount. It would be hard to tell which ones since these corporations purchase our so-called legislators pretty much in volume and at will. It is bad policy no matter how you look at it and it needs to be changed now.