Posted on 04/07/2011 10:12:34 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The US is sending a special radar-equipped warship to the Mediterranean Sea next week, in the first step to develop a broad anti-ballistic missile system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat, the Pentagon said.
The move marks the first of the Obama administration's four-phase plan to put land and sea-based radars and interceptors in several European locations during the next decade.
Endorsed by Nato during a summit in Lisbon last year, the missile shield has triggered opposition from Russia and set off lengthy negotiations over the future expanded ability to shoot down ballistic missiles in the region.
John Plumb, principal director for Pentagon nuclear and missile defence policy, said the USS Monterey would leave Norfolk, Virginia, next week, heading to a six-month deployment in the Mediterranean. The ship's mission, he said, would lay the groundwork for the unfolding missile defence plan there.
"Here is our first concrete demonstration of our commitment to the missile defence of our deployed forces, allies and partners in Europe," Mr Plumb said. "We said we were going to do it, and now we're doing it."
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I think maybe we do need Trump.
Europe should take care of themselves.
Isn’t France developing an ABM system?
F%$E#%^ *&Y*)&^Y )*&^) (*& (*& Europe, their GDP is higher than ours, they left us alone in Iraq and Afghanistan and instead of having an army they spend it on welfare.
We’re broke, pay up.
The French are deveoping the Aster SAM
Nope. The missile shield is located in europe to protect the US. Some one mixed up the facts. The missile shield is one of the few good things from the bush era that survived the dems madness.
Did the Sixth fleet participate in the “no fly zone” in pursuant to UN Res 1973?
Please tell me why protecting Europe, protects America?
The missiles that would hit America from Iran would fly over Eastern Europe.
I guess because the Eurofags can't defend themselves.
Seems to me (.)bama decided to scrap the defenses being put in place in Poland and the Czeck Republic...should have been cheaper and a fixed point defense allows our navy to be mobile rather than stuck in one area of operation.
Somehow I don't think the Pentagon "mixed up the facts" on their own weapon system:
"the first step to develop a broad anti-ballistic missile system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat, the Pentagon said".
You need to destroy balistic missiles during ascend. When they start to decent it’s too late.
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