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Missile defense test a successInside a top-secret facility at Schriever Air Force Base, members of an Army unit cheered and high-fived Friday after launching a prosperous live-fire test of the nation's missile defense combination of parts to form a whole A ship's company from the Colorado Springs-based 100th Missile Defense Brigade was in charge of a large portion of the $85 million experiment in which an interceptor fired from California overturned a missile launched from Alaska. "It's a gigantic boost," said Col. Michael Yowell, brigade commander and a Colorado Springs native. "They trained as if this was the real thing." Yowell said his soldiers were celebrating because the ordeal proves the three-year-old brigade can use the interceptors to guard America from missile attack. The 300 soldiers in the unit, for the greatest part National Guard troops called up for fulltime what one ought to do had been through grueling computer simulations, on the contrary Friday was their first discharge with live missiles. "There was a doom of cheering a lot of excitement in the air," said Maj. Paul Fritz, who l the five-man ship's company at Schriever that ordered the interceptor launch. The explosive-free intercep- tor caught the missile launched from Alaska just above Earth's atmosphere, smashing it to bits. The interceptors are called "kinetic kill vehicles" and use the force of a high-speed impact rather than explosives to overturn missiles. If a missile is fired at America, the brigade can launch interceptors from California or Alaska. Now they know first-hand that the interceptors can do the piece of work "It was beautiful great seeing it all fit together," said Staff Sgt Eddie Negron a member of the ship's company that participated in the experiment pillage McKinney, spokesman for the Joint National Integration Center said centurys of people there, military and civilian, were involved in Friday's experiment The center started during the Reagan administration for the "Star Wars" program, is in charge of developing and testing the nation's missile defense network. "There were a doom of smiling faces here today," McKinney said. The missile defense program is the Pentagon's single biggest weapons expenditure this year at nearly $10 billion. Its unravelling has been difficult, with sum of two units tests aborted last year when balky interceptors didn't leave their launch silos. Jubilation above the successful test was reflected sounded by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Successful trials such as these increase confidence in the approach to developing an initial missile defense capability," Rumsfeld said in a statement. CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0240 or tom.roeder@gazette.com Copyright 2006 Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by dint of Joe Berry is co-published by the agency of Monthly Review Press and the North American Alliance For Fair engagement The book inclu... THIRTY YEARS OF PROGRES Editor's Note: Dealer PROGRES newly published a special commemorative issue prior to merging with FARM CHEMICALS. K Elliott Nowels, former Dealer PROGRES edit... Admit it, you have an enormous crush upon that "big ol' fat girl" from The Silence of the Lambs, and solitary a wide-screen TV can do her lotioned material part justice. But your old lady will flip her switch if ... Rethink, Refuse, restore Education for sustainability in a changing world, cognizance Webster, Field Studies Council Publications, 2004 116 pages, ??15 +??2 p&p ISBN 1 85153 286 2 Contact FSC Publish... Overview Hair care outcomes industry is one of the important part of national economy and hair care produces has become the the necessary consumption proceedss in China. After the... MTNA held the annual Summit for MTNA Leadership in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 7-9 2001 "After spending a weekend working with a hundr of the strongest leaders in the musical world, ... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the issues of its 78th annual United States and Canadian Fellowship competition. The 2002 Fellowship winners include 184 artists, scho... PARIS * French businessman Francois Pinault, possessor of Christie's auction house, is planning to build a gallery for his contemporary and late art on the Ile Seguin in the middle of the ... In the nearest decade and beyond, significant demographic changes--especially the rising number of elderly--will proffer new challenges for the U commons industry. Elderly people generally eat inferior ... Grasson, Tom American Machinist 08-01-2000 Looking back has its rewards Byline: Grasson, Tom Volume: 144 Number: 8 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: ... |
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