Posted on 04/05/2005 1:04:00 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Pentagon announced yesterday the completion of a new high-powered radar that is a key element of the U.S. ground-based missile defense system. Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said the joining of the 2,000-ton Sea Based X-Band radar and its oceangoing platform -- ultimately destined for the island of Adak off the coast of Alaska -- on Sunday is a "major milestone" in the evolving U.S. missile defense system. "It gives us the capability of dramatically expanding our testing ... and by porting it in Adak it also gives us an operational capability from a North Korean [missile] threat," Gen. Obering said in an interview.
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FYI
Good, huh?
Let me ask a scientist's opinion.
Well I am no expert in this system, however, I think it is "good" and a very much needed system!
Remember PARCS that was the heart of the Sprint/Spartan (called Safeguard) system?
http://www.peterson.af.mil/21sw/library/fact_sheets/10sws.htm
It got killed along time ago. I still have the Scientific American that described that entire system. :-)
ps.s one of my colleagues used to work at PARCS.
THANK YOU!
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