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  • Fighters eyed for ballistic missile defense

    06/19/2009 2:14:51 AM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 39 replies · 1,580+ views
    Strategy Page ^ | 06/19/2009 | By Sam LaGrone
    The Air Force wants to look at arming fighter jets to shoot down ballistic missiles, according to a letter from Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz to the head of the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency. The June 2 letter from Schwartz, addressed to the MDA director, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, called for a study of arming F-15s and F-16s, and possibly F-22s and F-35s, with specialized munitions under a concept dubbed Air Launched Hit-to-Kill. Schwartz said a 2008 war game, based in the European theater in 2020, piqued the interest of the Air Force to study the ALHK...