Posted on 06/21/2002 12:56:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon agency plans to push for accelerating development of a missile-defense shield based at sea, just one week after the U.S. pulled out of a treaty with Russia that banned such a system.
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said it hopes to deploy sea-based defensive missiles as early as 2004. Although the agency hadn't previously disclosed a timetable, a deployment two years from now would represent a faster pace than many experts had expected for putting in place defenses designed to intercept enemy missiles while they're hurtling through space.
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