US to Simulate Iranian Missile Attack Next Month
The Jeusalem Post ^ | 12/15/2009 | Jerusalem Post Staff
Posted on Tue Dec 15 2009 02:16:59 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by sonofstrangelove

A top Pentagon official said Monday that a US missile defense drill will simulate an Iranian attack, a departure from the usual scenario of a North Korean attack, according to Reuters.

"Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario. This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario," Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, head of the US Missile Defense Agency said at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington.

According to O'Reilly, an Iranian attack would be more challenging than a North Korean attack because a missile fired from Iran would reach the US "more head on than from the side," and therefore relatively faster.

During the test, expected to cost about $150 million scheduled for January, the US would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a mock-Iranian missile which would be fired from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

O'Reilly was speaking just days after diplomats expressed concerns over reports that Iran has been testing a neutron initiator, a key element in producing nuclear weapons.

A neutron initiator begins the implosion that ends with a nuclear blast, and as a component of the nuclear cycle has no use in civilian or military programs unless in the production of atomic bombs.

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SOLDIERS and GOVERNMENT B!TCHES you are THE SCUM ! you are PIECE OF CRAP! you are THE TRAITORS !

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http://www.mda.mil/news/10news0001.html
10-NEWS-0001
January 31, 2010
Missile Defense Test Conducted

The Missile Defense Agency conducted a flight test today of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System.

A target missile was successfully launched at approximately 3:40 p.m. PST from the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Approximately six minutes later, a Ground-Based Interceptor was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Both the target missile and Ground-Based Interceptor performed nominally after launch. However, the Sea-Based X-band radar did not perform as expected.

Program officials will conduct an extensive investigation to determine the cause of the failure to intercept.

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