Missile defence shield test fails
The first test in almost two years of the planned multi-billion dollar US anti-missile shield has failed.
The Pentagon said an interceptor missile did not take off and was automatically shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific.
A target missile carrying a mock warhead had been fired 16 minutes earlier from Kodiak Island in Alaska.
The Pentagon is spending $10bn a year on the missile system, which was meant to be in operation by the end of 2004.
The Missile Defence Agency said an "unknown anomaly" was to blame for the system shutting down.
Actually, transferring billions of dollars to well-connected defense contractors for ineffective nonsense while soldiers die because they do not have basic low-tech tools like armor is a pretty well-understood anomaly.
The Pentagon said an interceptor missile did not take off and was automatically shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific.
A target missile carrying a mock warhead had been fired 16 minutes earlier from Kodiak Island in Alaska.
The Pentagon is spending $10bn a year on the missile system, which was meant to be in operation by the end of 2004.
The Missile Defence Agency said an "unknown anomaly" was to blame for the system shutting down.
Actually, transferring billions of dollars to well-connected defense contractors for ineffective nonsense while soldiers die because they do not have basic low-tech tools like armor is a pretty well-understood anomaly.
posted by bluememe at 12/15/2004
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