{"id":3177,"date":"2004-12-09T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3177.html"},"modified":"2004-12-09T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T17:29:30","slug":"it-can-shoot-down-incoming-icbms-but-only-if-its-sunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-can-shoot-down-incoming-icbms-but-only-if-its-sunny\/","title":{"rendered":"It can shoot down incoming ICBMs &#8212; but only if it&#8217;s sunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/12\/09\/missile.defense.ap\/\">This<\/a> hardly sounds encouraging.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bad weather Wednesday forced the military to scrub the first full flight test of its national missile defense system in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is just heavy cloud cover,&#8221; Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said of conditions Wednesday evening off the Alaskan coast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it me, or shouldn&#8217;t the defense system work even when it&#8217;s cloudy? As my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/demagogue.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_12_05_demagogue_archive.html#110260687619678924\">Eugene Oregon put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hopefully, once they spend a few billion more dollars on the project, they&#8217;ll be able to get the system to work in all weather conditions. Either that or we&#8217;ll have to ask people only to lob missiles at us on sunny, cloudless days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also disconcerting was word that this $85 million test of a system that&#8217;s supposed to shoot down incoming missiles won&#8217;t actually measure the system&#8217;s success in shooting down incoming missiles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the test, a target missile will be launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska, and an interceptor missile will fire from Kwajalein Island in the central Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Because the launches will test several new aspects of the missile defense system, Lehner said the interceptor actually shooting down the target is <i>not a primary goal of the mission<\/i> (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I feel safer already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hardly sounds encouraging. Bad weather Wednesday forced the military to scrub the first full flight test of its national missile defense system in nearly two years. &#8220;It is just heavy cloud cover,&#8221; Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said of conditions Wednesday evening off the Alaskan coast. Is it me, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}