Pentagon Says Its $180 Billion Missile Defense System Has Improved
By Anthony Capaccio
January 24, 2019, 4:00 AM EST
The Pentagon continues to make progress in showing that its $180 billion network of ground- and sea-based missile interceptors, sensors and communications links could defend the U.S. from a limited North Korean or Iranian attack, according to the military’s testing office.
The system “has demonstrated capability†to protect the American mainland or troops abroad from “a small number†of intermediate-range and intercontinental ballistic missile threats if the Pentagon “employs its full architecture of sensors and command and control,†Robert Behler, the Defense Department’s director of operational testing said in a new assessment obtained by Bloomberg News.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/pentagon-s-180-billion-missile-defense-system-called-improved
