Just Days After a Report Saying the US Missile Defense System Fails In Tests, Pentagon says Test Done Today Passed,..NOTHING TO SEE HERE AMERICA

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The U.S. missile defense system can’t be relied on to hit its targets even in scripted tests a decade after it was declared operational and despite $40 billion spent, according to a newspaper’s investigation.

The Los Angeles Times found that officials overstated the reliability of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD.

The missile shield system was supposed to protect Americans from attacks by “rogue states” like North Korea and Iran, but it has failed in half of the tests conducted to determine its ability to intercept a mock enemy warhead. In fact, despite years of vows to fix technical shortcomings, the system’s performance has grown worse since testing began in 1999.

Dean A. Wilkening, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, has called the system’s test record abysmal.

He served on a National Academy of Sciences panel that issued a 2011 report on missile defense and said at a May 28 policy conference in Washington, D.C., that GMD was a “prototype system” that “performed less well than people had hoped” and “one shouldn’t be too surprised that it does tend to fail more than you’d like.”

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