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"Star Wars Faces a Budget Hit
Unreliability is just one reason why funding is being cut. The other is the changing nature of potential threats to U.S. security
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Such woes could be part of the reason missile defense is heading toward a 10% cut in its 2006 budget, to $8.8 billion.
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"NO DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITY." Since then, despite the roughly $10 billion a year that has poured into the program, Rumsfeld has conceded the system doesn't have to be 100% effective. It just has to work well enough to change the calculation of an enemy thinking about lofting a missile at Los Angeles or New York. Problem is, it doesn't even seem capable of doing that, as the December test showed.
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What's more, every time there is an attempt to intercept a missile, the target carries a beacon to tell the interceptor where it is -- a service an enemy isn't likely to offer.
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The way it's looking now, the proposed cuts in Star Wars may well have a better chance of succeeding than the system's missiles."
Watch the decisions that will be taken regarding cuting this budget.
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