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Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Agency skips missile tests to save money Will someone explain to me how much money we have paid Boeing to date on this missile defense idiocy?

In 2000, Boeing was to begin flight tests of a new booster - used to carry a missile-intercept device known as a ''kill vehicle'' into space to destroy an enemy warhead by colliding with it - but it encountered technical problems. After a booster launch failure in December 2001, Boeing decided to contract with Lockheed Martin, and later Orbital Sciences, to come up with designs for an intercept booster.

My reading of the paragraph above suggests that every cent we paid them to date has just been flushed down the toilet. If they are still looking for designs after years of funding, they haven't done jack...
posted by Dave on 9:44 AM | 0 comments link

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