“”U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he has ordered the deployment of a new missile defense system and a sophisticated tracking radar to respond to any North Korean missile launch that threatens Hawaii.””
“”and he has ordered a new high-altitude missile interceptor system deployed to Hawaii, along with a floating radar system to provide tracking data.””
I’ve read this over and over and I don’t see anywhere that this system (it appears to be two new systems) he’s talking about has to be approved by Congress. I didn’t know new systems could just be ordered without lengthy pro and con discussions about them. Or was that just in the Reagan era?
Weren’t some of our missile defense systems in the US eliminated in the past couple of years?
X-Band(SBX) radar has been deployed for quite a while. They have not fully worked the bugs out.
THAAD had its genesis in 1987 so it is hardly new.