Missile defence shield test fails

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BBC


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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4097267.stm

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1. $10 billion a year?

I wish it were only $10 billion a year we're spending on the missile defense boondoggle. But Stupidhead said it will be operational in the next two weeks, so operational it will be! Right?

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2. duplicate thread

locking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1072791