You want that system in Alaska by the end of 2004.
Secretary Crouch, when does the U.S. plan to upgrade the radars in the U.K. and Greenland for missile defense, and how much funding will be ...
Although presumably the warhead would not be armed. Unless they do not have the arming techniques.
What do you think about the potential side benefit of this kind of system?
If you are going to have 16 more tests, and this thing is operational in 2004, you are really going to have a challenge of how do you pull i...
Where is Shemya?
Do you not have a lot of promise on your boost phase right now with the Aegis system?
If you can shoot down a rocket in its boost phase with a laser from a big airplane, you can shoot down anything.
But the technical capability has to follow a policy decision. That is why I raised the issue for you to start thinking about.
Okay. So, that is a little island, you have it there or the floating platform.
So, since your statement in February, there has been such sufficient confidence in the system and the testing that you feel like that it is ...
When would you estimate that you would do a test of the space-based?
How far along are we in the testing of the airborne laser?
With some of the rockets that we are going to go to Mars with, we can do it with that.
General, with regard to the boost phase systems, the boost phase interceptor has to be very fast or it has to get very close in order to be ...
If you get to the time period of 2008 to 2012 that you talked about and start to deploy space-based assets, if we were to ever have a policy...
General Kadish, the GMD interceptor is supposed to get in-flight targeting update messages to steer it towards the target.
Secretary Crouch, if the administration launches space-based weapons such as the space-based boost phase interceptor test satellites, is it ...
