Some time ago we had a discussion the Missile defense system Bush is going to build for the U. S. and it's allies. Most mudcatters seemed to believe that such a system would never work.

I thought I would bring this fact to the attention of those folks, if they missed the article in today's newspaper. Quoting from "The Arizona Republic."

"A Pentagon "kill vehicle" located and destroyed a dummy missile warhead in outer space above the central Pacific Ocean on Saturday evening, giving a new boost to the administration's ambitious and controversial missile defense program.

The 120-pound interceptor, launched atop a missile from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, found the target 144 miles into outer space, and at 8:09 p.m. Arizona time pulverized it in a blinding flash of light. The target missile had been launched about 7:40p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California."

This success means that two of four flight tests of the anti-missile system conducted since October 1999 have hit their targets."

Can't be done? Still think so?

:>) DougR