Gość: Artur
IP: *.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl
19.04.05, 09:55
www.missilethreat.com/news/200504.html
Inside the Pentagon reports on April 7 that the Bush administration is
considering the deployment of a limited constellation of space-based kinetic
energy interceptors to protect the United States. Plans for such an initial
capability, at the cost of some $673 million, are reportedly included in a
set of Missile Defense Agency long-term budgetary assessments recently made
public. The projects call for a limited capability of 50-100 satellites for
a “thin boost/ascent defense against intercontinental range ballistic
missiles.” Testing for such a program is reported to possibly begin in 2008
if it were funded by Congress, with possible deployment no sooner than 2016.
Space-based boost-phase interceptors are of course one of the most
important elements of a layered missile defense, providing the most
technically effective basis from which missiles can be destroyed. The report
of plans for testing, however, is sure to provoke sharp criticism by those
ideologically opposed to the weaponization of space.