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Military Planning to Place Sixth Ballistic Missile Interceptor at Alaska's Fort Greely
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126 posted on 10/13/2004 9:03:24 AM PDT by Truth666
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To prepare for activation, the military is conducting exercises at the Interior Alaska post, where five of the 55-foot-long rockets have been installed since July ...
The first two interceptors destined for Vandenberg Air Force Base in California will go into existing silos in November, with two scheduled to be deployed there next year and 10 more at Fort Greely.
Until the system is deemed fully operational, interceptors will remain locked down ...
Critics say no one knows if the interceptors will work; in highly controlled tests, the interceptors have failed three of eight times.
"The system has no demonstrated capability that it would work in realistic conditions," said Philip Coyle, who was the Pentagon's former assistant secretary of operational test and evaluation
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127 posted on 10/13/2004 9:15:32 AM PDT by Truth666
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