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No Missile Left Behind
With failure rates at pretty much 100% it seems that we need to introduce some more accountability and competition into the development of the national missile defense system. How can we stand idly by and let our missile defense system fail?
A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.
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The previous test, on Dec. 15, failed under almost identical circumstances. The target missile launched, but the interceptor did not.
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Before the Dec. 15 launch, it had been two years since a test. The program had gone five-for-eight in previous attempts to intercept a target.
No date for the next test has been announced. It is unclear how continued test failures would affect two experimental interceptor bases in Alaska and California.
(see article)
For example, maybe if Russia or China was also trying to shoot down our mock missles, the interceptor would be more likely to launch or actually hit its target? Or maybe when tests like these fails, we could just fail to pay the enormous fees we pay to the private contractors who develop these systems? We're talking about national security here, not some third grader who can't read. We say, leave the third grader behind and bring some accountability into the missile defense system. Can we really afford to delay when the sign of failure may be a mushroom cloud?
If schools fails do we not take away their money and close them? When children fail do we not scold them and re-test them? If a child can read 5 of 8 words do we pass them?
NOTE: QUOTES ARE ITALICIZED.
A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.
--snip--
The previous test, on Dec. 15, failed under almost identical circumstances. The target missile launched, but the interceptor did not.
--snip--
Before the Dec. 15 launch, it had been two years since a test. The program had gone five-for-eight in previous attempts to intercept a target.
No date for the next test has been announced. It is unclear how continued test failures would affect two experimental interceptor bases in Alaska and California.
(see article)
For example, maybe if Russia or China was also trying to shoot down our mock missles, the interceptor would be more likely to launch or actually hit its target? Or maybe when tests like these fails, we could just fail to pay the enormous fees we pay to the private contractors who develop these systems? We're talking about national security here, not some third grader who can't read. We say, leave the third grader behind and bring some accountability into the missile defense system. Can we really afford to delay when the sign of failure may be a mushroom cloud?
If schools fails do we not take away their money and close them? When children fail do we not scold them and re-test them? If a child can read 5 of 8 words do we pass them?
NOTE: QUOTES ARE ITALICIZED.
posted by littleboxes at 2:50 PM
1 Comments:
Indeed, black interceptor missiles are held accountable -- their heads are taken off, their inner circuitry rewired, and they are subjected to further prototype testing. It turns out that we can still apply Plessy v. Ferguson to missiles, and keep black interceptor missiles from slowing down the progress of white interceptor missiles. Because after all, should this great white nation come under attack, a white interceptor missile will save the day.
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