Amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a San Diego defense contractor is asserting that remotely piloted aircraft such as the ones it manufactures might have a role to play in missile defense.
Missile Defense Agency pushes back, pointing Breaking Defense to positive report from Pentagon tester, laudatory comments from senior military officials and recent test wins.
author of 1917 leonard wilson and the birth of the new world disorder. i read this book and it s awesome. arthur herman historian. welcome. you have a way to combat this. if the president wanted to get down to business, how we take care of this. the way to take care of this is to shoot those missiles down as they leave the launch pad. that s called boost phase intercept with ballistic missiles. every ballistic missile comes with a booster to get it up out of the out of the atmosphere. the boost face is the hottest and the slowest portion of the missile launch. so you have the possibility. brian: looking at it there in the file. that s right. you have the possibility then of being able to intercept that thing and debris field will fall over north korea or into the sea of japan. not over japan or closer to the target. brian: this flew for 50 minutes and went 600 miles. are you impressed with what they were able to do with this launch? did anything stand out about their capabilities
what s clear is that they now have the range. what they lack is the ability to target and to deliver on target. that still alludes them. they are going to be there sooner than we think. brian: within a year some say. the boost phase intercept you briefed general mcmaster on, this right? he has seen my brief regarding boost phase intercept using unmanned aircraft drones and conventional intercept missiles. i talked to members of congress about it. don t be surprised if in the next few days congress begins to move towards taking some of that 4 billion supplemental budget that president trump has devoted to ballistic missile defense, taking some of that to develop this boost phase intercept with conventional missiles. brian: are you saying right now we are cair capable of knocking that missile out soon after it leaves the tarmac? we have the technology to do that now. brian: what would be the response to that, do you think, being that you