Pentagon expedites missile-defense plan

Washington Times ^ | 6/26/02 | Bill Gertz

[kattracks]

The Pentagon is rapidly moving ahead with deploying a new defense system in the next few years that can knock out enemy missiles, the general in charge of the program said yesterday.

"Our goal is very simple: to defend against limited long-range threats and robustly against shorter-range threats," Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish said in discussing the $48 billion development program.

[Centurion2000]

Call me a skeptic but I'd bet good money that we already have some systems ready .... they'll just be coming out ofthe black budget fast to make it look like we're getting good results.

[hchutch]

We'll have to see. I like the airborne lasers and I'd like to see an Aegis-based missile defense, too.