Concerns About The New Missile Defense Plan Are Now Being Raised

A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) during a joint U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test in the Pacific Ocean, June 22, 2006. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Handout

Questions Arise on Backbone of New Missile Defense Plan -- Global Security Newswire

Some observers question whether the weapons that would be central to the Obama administration's new missile defense plan for Europe can be trusted to function during a conflict, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 30).

Washington has replaced the Bush administration drive to deploy long-range missile interceptors in Poland with an initiative to field successive sea- and land-based versions of the Navy's Standard Missile 3. The system would be intended to protect U.S. allies and forces in Europe against short- and medium-range missiles, which are now seen as the looming threat from Iran.

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