re: Gordon Chang - America's Anti Missile Defense System has a 56% failure rate

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This cant be accurate can it?

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It is accurate if we are to believe NYT who wrote a long piece about this a while back. They quoted a similar figure if memory serves. Yeah, just found it:

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The decision to intensify the cyber and electronic strikes, in early 2014, came after Mr. Obama concluded that the $300 billion spent since the Eisenhower era on traditional antimissile systems, often compared to hitting “a bullet with a bullet,” had failed the core purpose of protecting the continental United States. Flight tests of interceptors based in Alaska and California had an overall failure rate of 56 percent, under near-perfect conditions. Privately, many experts warned the system would fare worse in real combat.

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I recommend reading the entire article. We are in some serious shite with NK: LINK