Congressional Investigators Question Missile Defense Systems

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1P3PVETD.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. missile defense systems may not have faced testing rigorous enough to ensure they would work during an attack, said a congressional study released Friday.

The report, prepared by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, calls for the military to conduct more realistic testing before making the systems operational.

The first of a series of interceptor missiles, designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles launched by North Korea or other belligerents, are expected to be ready by the end of the year.

A spokesman for the military's Missile Defense Agency disputed aspects of the congressional report. Rick Lehner said the military is fulfilling a congressional mandate to deploy missile defenses as soon as it can - even though the program is still in a research and development phase. That means additional testing will take place after the first interceptors are deployed, he said.

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[Dudley_DUright]

1. Um, disputed usually means that you disagree with the facts

This spokesman joker for the MDA basically agrees that additional testing is necessary, but only after deploying a system that we have no idea will work. This is nothing but pork for the big defense contractors.

[LittleApple81]

4. And this little piggy robbed the market...saying oink, oink, oink. n/t

[RC]

2. I'll sleep well tonight knowing that

they'll build it first then test the hell out of it to get it working.

This BS has never worked in reality without rigging the tests with homing devices & such.
Yeah, NK will notify us with the flight path and times when they launch their missiles at us. Sure and bu$h is the best prez we've ever had, too. :eyes:

[frylock]

3. NK will notify us with the flight path and times when they launch..

one can move the heavens and earth with hard intel like that.

[RC]

5. It worked well for 9/11 didn't it?

Or it would have if this administration weren't so hung up on self-centered greed at the expense of the rest of the world.