Friday, May 1, 2015

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency Spent $10 billion On 4 Projects That Did Not Work

Sea-Based X-Band Radar being transported on ship. (Photo : Twitter Photo Section)

AllGov: Missile Defense Agency Spent $10 Billion on 4 Projects that were Cancelled

The Department of Defense started, then discarded, four massive missile defense projects, wasting $10 billion on technology that wasn’t capable of protecting the United States from foreign attack.

An investigation by the Los Angeles Times identified four programs developed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) that did not work as advertised:

The Department of Defense started, then discarded, four massive missile defense projects, wasting $10 billion on technology that wasn’t capable of protecting the United States from foreign attack.

An investigation by the Los Angeles Times identified four programs developed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) that did not work as advertised:

Update: Missile Defense Agency Wasted $10 Billion of Taxpayers' Money -- HNGN

WNU Editor: This is an update to the same story that I posted a few weeks ago ..... Did The Pentagon Just Waste $10 Billion On An Ineffective Anti-Missile Defense System? No one said that researching and developing these technologies was going to be cheap and easy.

1 comment:

James said...

The above photo reminds me so much of the Glomar Explorer project, the cover story and the back story.