US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats

New submitter dcmcilrath sends this quote from the NY Times: "The Pentagon will spend $1 billion to deploy additional ballistic missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to counter the growing reach of North Korea's weapons, a decision accelerated by Pyongyang's recent belligerence and indications that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is resisting China's efforts to restrain him. ... The missiles have a mixed record in testing, hitting dummy targets just 50 percent of the time, but officials said Friday’s announcement was intended not merely to present a credible deterrence to the North’s limited intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. They said it is also meant to show South Korea and Japan that the United States is willing to commit resources to deterring the North and, at the same time, warn Beijing that it must restrain its ally or face an expanding American military focus on Asia."

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Re:Socialism at it's finest!

[hairyfeet]

Again watch the video, the Sgt York wasn't "bought" either yet the company walked away with several billion in the bank....get it now? they do NOT have to hand in a working product as THEY GET PAID NO MATTER WHAT and in fact like "The Producers" they can often make MORE money on a flop than on a working system!

You see you are thinking its like a business, where somebody offers you a product and you buy...its not the way it works. they get paid HUGE amounts in "R&D" and admin costs even if it never works at all so that 2017 deadline gives 'em 4 years to live off the sweet gov teat while not actually having to show jack shit. So you see it doesn't matter if every scientist out there has said it'll need computers and radar and scanners several orders of magnitude more precise than anything we currently have because no matter if they make paper airplanes or spend the next 4 years sitting on ass they STILL get to hand those padded bills over and get checks cut.

Like I said its a hell of a scam, they just recycled the SDI crap from the 80s with as much chance of making it working and they get years of big fat checks no matter what.