If you can shoot down a rocket in its boost phase with a laser from a big airplane, you can shoot down anything.
Do you not have a lot of promise on your boost phase right now with the Aegis system?
Where is Shemya?
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...
What do you think about the potential side benefit of this kind of system?
Although presumably the warhead would not be armed. Unless they do not have the arming techniques.
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 ...
You want that system in Alaska by the end of 2004.
It is not clear how the national missile defense system to be deployed by 2004 will be manned 24 hours a day.
If we are going to completely throw off the schedule of these folks, I do not want to do that.
All right.
Secretary Crouch, will the President's planned deployment of the national missile defense system in Alaska go ahead by the end of fiscal yea...
General Kadish, should we proceed with deployment of the GMD system if we have not yet completed a successful test that includes aiming the ...
General Kadish, when do you plan to increase test complexity to include targets with signatures, countermeasures, and flight dynamics more c...
The Missile Defense Agency is an R&D agency that has no operational control over the system it develops.
Let me ask a policy question to the secretary over there. That would be the first time that we would be weaponizing space.
That is why you need my vote.
Why, then, is there no current capability against a real threat?