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(60,364 posts) Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:44 AM Jun 2014

Everything You Need To Know About Missile Defense In One Paragraph

http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20140615/NEWS04/306150032/U-S-missile-defense-system-unreliable-tests

U.S. missile defense system unreliable in tests
The Associated Press
Jun. 15, 2014 - 05:07PM

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. — The U.S. missile defense system can’t be relied on to hit its targets even in scripted tests a decade after it was declared operational and despite $40 billion spent, according to a newspaper’s investigation.