The mission of the
Missile Defense Agency (“Making Ballistic Missile Defense A Reality…”) is “to develop, test and prepare for deployment a missile defense system. Using complementary interceptors, land-, sea-, air- and space-based sensors, and battle management command and control systems, the planned missile defense system will be able to engage all classes and ranges of ballistic missile threats.”
Rick Lehner, a spokesperson for the Missile Defense Agency, spoke yesterday afternoon with
California Politics Today reporter Marc Strassman about the technology behind the missile defense system that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cited in their jointly-authored op-ed entitled
“The West Needs a Defense System That Works,” published yesterday, in which they write:
“We have come a long way from early programs and tests in the 1980s and 90s. Since 2001, we have had 26 successful hit-to-kill intercepts out of 34 attempts. And 15 of the last 16 flight tests have been successful in the past couple of years. Given this trend of success, we are confident that these systems will work, and that they will represent a practical 21st century solution to the new threat we all face.”
You can listen to that conversation with Missile Defense Agency spokesperson Rick Lehner in the “california politics today 1" line-up in the
California Politics Today Channel below:
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