U.S. Adding 14 ground based interceptors to west coast

[Caster Fly]

CNN: Breaking

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to announce Friday afternoon that the Pentagon is enhancing the nation's ability to defend itself from a nuclear missile attack by North Korea, a U.S. Defense official told CNN.


Hagel will announce that the U.S. will be deploying up to 14 additional ground-based interceptors on the West Coast, according to the official.


Some of those will come from reopening a missile field in Fort Greely, Alaska, and others will be based in California, the official said. It will take up to two years for all of them to come on line, the official said, and will cost more than $200 million.

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[MrWarmth]

This thread ended with this post. I'm sorry.

[Schmoopy]

Too bad the Marxist didn't do it back in 2009.


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Pentagon to beef up missile defense in response to North Korean threat, sources say
By Justin Fishel
Published March 14, 2013 | FoxNews.com
The Pentagon is beefing up the nation’s missile defense in the wake of provocative nuclear threats from North Korea and is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California, congressional and U.S. officials tell Fox News.
The extra interceptors on the West Coast, designed to counter attacks from an intercontinental ballistic missile, would bring the total number of interceptors to 44, a plan originally proposed by the Bush administration. President Obama stopped the deployment of the additional interceptors when he took office in 2009, leaving the total number at 30.
Congressional sources claim that by stalling the original plan and forcing the military to bring back on line silos that otherwise would have been operational, the Obama administration has effectively wasted millions in taxpayer’s dollars.
It’s a sentiment that is not likely to sit well with conservative lawmakers when the plan is announced on Monday, particularly as they seek new austerity measures.
A senior Pentagon official hinted at the decision last week in a speech to the Atlantic Council in Washington just days after Pyongyang threatened a “pre-emptive” nuclear strike on the United States.
“North Korea’s shrill public pronouncements underscore the need for the U.S. to continue to take prudent steps to defeat any future North Korean ICBM,” James Miller, endersecretary of Defense for policy, said.
Upon completion of Missile Field Number One at Fort Greely, Alaska, Miller said, “we have the ability to swiftly deploy up to 14 additional ground-based interceptors if needed.” In addition to Fort Greely, current interceptors are set up at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Missile Field Number One was one of the areas where the Obama administration stopped construction in 2009. Congressional sources say it will cost at least $205 million to bring that missile field up to speed, more than it would have cost four years ago. These officials say the price of the missiles themselves also has increased.
An Obama administration official tells Fox News that the increase in interceptors is a logical response to an evolving threat from North Korea and that “anyone who suggests we should have stayed the course” with the Bush administration’s plan is engaging in “Monday morning quarterbacking.”


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[Caster Fly]

Too bad the Marxist didn't do it back in 2009.


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I was wondering how long this shit would take and who would be the first.

[Schmoopy]

I was wondering how long this shit would take and who would be the first.

[Mack]

Too bad the Marxist didn't do it back in 2009.


Obama Admits Bush Was Right

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Pentagon to beef up missile defense in response to North Korean threat, sources say
By Justin Fishel
Published March 14, 2013 | FoxNews.com
The Pentagon is beefing up the nation’s missile defense in the wake of provocative nuclear threats from North Korea and is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California, congressional and U.S. officials tell Fox News.
The extra interceptors on the West Coast, designed to counter attacks from an intercontinental ballistic missile, would bring the total number of interceptors to 44, a plan originally proposed by the Bush administration. President Obama stopped the deployment of the additional interceptors when he took office in 2009, leaving the total number at 30.
Congressional sources claim that by stalling the original plan and forcing the military to bring back on line silos that otherwise would have been operational, the Obama administration has effectively wasted millions in taxpayer’s dollars.
It’s a sentiment that is not likely to sit well with conservative lawmakers when the plan is announced on Monday, particularly as they seek new austerity measures.
A senior Pentagon official hinted at the decision last week in a speech to the Atlantic Council in Washington just days after Pyongyang threatened a “pre-emptive” nuclear strike on the United States.
“North Korea’s shrill public pronouncements underscore the need for the U.S. to continue to take prudent steps to defeat any future North Korean ICBM,” James Miller, endersecretary of Defense for policy, said.
Upon completion of Missile Field Number One at Fort Greely, Alaska, Miller said, “we have the ability to swiftly deploy up to 14 additional ground-based interceptors if needed.” In addition to Fort Greely, current interceptors are set up at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Missile Field Number One was one of the areas where the Obama administration stopped construction in 2009. Congressional sources say it will cost at least $205 million to bring that missile field up to speed, more than it would have cost four years ago. These officials say the price of the missiles themselves also has increased.
An Obama administration official tells Fox News that the increase in interceptors is a logical response to an evolving threat from North Korea and that “anyone who suggests we should have stayed the course” with the Bush administration’s plan is engaging in “Monday morning quarterbacking.”


Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/president-...#ixzz2NdiuK3jy

I sure hope our troops don't desert their posts if and when a war breaks out.

[Schmoopy]

I sure hope our troops don't desert their posts if and when a war breaks out.

[Schmoopy]

HAL Jung Un

[GHP]

I saw this.

Good

[Caster Fly]

I saw this.

Good

Two years to until operational.

[GHP]

Two years to until operational.

It will take longer than that for NK to develop a delivery system

Can you imagine if they fire a nuke that drops in the ocean? An invitation to obliterate them with the world's blessing

[MatthewT]

It will take longer than that for NK to develop a delivery system

Can you imagine if they fire a nuke that drops in the ocean? An invitation to obliterate them with the world's blessing

[Caster Fly]

Truth...

A nuke, or a "dirty bomb" will probably steam in to NY way before they can hit is with a missile.

[Caster Fly]

It will take longer than that for NK to develop a delivery system

Can you imagine if they fire a nuke that drops in the ocean? An invitation to obliterate them with the world's blessing

They already have the delivery system capability (although unreliable), thankfully they don't have the targeting ability. It's doubtful they can hit planet earth with anything at this point.

[GHP]

They already have the delivery system capability (although unreliable), thankfully they don't have the targeting ability. It's doubtful they can hit planet earth with anything at this point.

US really doesn't need San Diego anyway

[MatthewT]

October 2011 someone shot a sub-based missile into the air about 35 miles off of the California coast. NORAD said it wasn't us.

Then they said it was just a weird contrail. Problem was, CBS was doing a weather report and it made it onto Youtube before it got scrubbed by whatever alphabet soup agency in DC scrubs such things.

could have been China; could have been N. Korea; could have been Russia.

[HeinousMark]

October 2011 someone shot a sub-based missile into the air about 35 miles off of the California coast. NORAD said it wasn't us.

Then they said it was just a weird contrail. Problem was, CBS was doing a weather report and it made it onto Youtube before it got scrubbed by whatever alphabet soup agency in DC scrubs such things.

could have been China; could have been N. Korea; could have been Russia.

this

[MatthewT]

always a silver lining

[Gomez]

I feel like Dark Friday needs to give us his analysis on this