Text Fwd: U.S. confident on capability to intercept N. Korean missiles: Pentagon

Yonhap News
U.S. confident on capability to intercept N. Korean missiles: Pentagon
By Hwang Doo-hyong

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Yonhap) -- The United States has the capability to intercept ballistic missiles from North Korea, a senior U.S. official has said.

Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency, made the remarks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday in response to a lawmaker who expressed "concerns about the ground-based midcourse defense system in Alaska and California," citing "back-to-back flight test failures this past year."

"We have two versions of the GMD missile. The first version is called capability enhancement No. 1 and it's the kill vehicle that has performed five times on flight, has done very well, three intercept attempts and it's intercepted three times," O'Reilly said, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon Friday.

Critics are skeptical of the effectiveness of the costly global missile defense systems, citing technological shortfalls and political ramifications, although Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other senior U.S. officials have expressed confidence in the U.S. capability to shoot down any ballistic missiles coming from North Korea.

"Those are flights out of -- the target out of Kodiak, Alaska, and the intercept out of Vandenberg (California)," O'Reilly said. "That roughly equates to the geometry of a launch out of North Korea and an intercept coming out of Fort Greely, Alaska. So for those type of scenarios and for that system, the CE-1, we remain to have confidence in the system based on the data we've seen."

The U.S. also "started a second version of the missile kill vehicle in 2005 based on obsolescence reasons; parts, manufacturers and so forth not producing parts anymore that -- and the electronic systems that we needed," he said. "We redesigned the system, upgraded it, and actually gave a greater sensitivity and greater capability. However, it failed on the first flight test due to a quality control problem. We corrected that quality control problem and in the second flight it didn't happen."

Due to budget constraints, the Obama administration in 2009 cut back a plan that would have increased the number of interceptors to 44 from 30, but administration officials insist 30 interceptors are enough to counter North Korea's missile capability "for some years to come."

Speaking at the hearing, Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, said that the U.S. has been improving the GMD system against "the threats that might emerge from states like North Korea and Iran to conduct limited strikes on the United States."

Gates said in January that North Korea's missiles and nuclear weapons will pose a threat to the U.S. within five years. Some experts say Pyongyang may have already developed nuclear warheads small enough for missile payloads.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has made a series of provocations in recent months, including the sinking of a South Korean warship and shelling of a border island that killed 50 people last year.

In November, Pyongyang also disclosed a uranium enrichment plant that could be used to make nuclear weapons apart from its plutonium program. The North claims its intention is to generate electricity.

hdh@yna.co.kr
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See also Korea Times
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/04/113_84352.html

Text Fwd: U.S. Missile Agency Agency Awards Raytheon $175M For Japan Deal [레이시온, 미사일 방어국에게 일본 거래로 1.75억 달러 제공]

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U.S. Missile Agency Agency Awards Raytheon $175M For Japan Deal
Associated Press
September 27, 2010

Raytheon awarded $175 million contract

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Company a $175 million
development contract, the defense company said Monday.

Under the contract, Raytheon will work with partners in Japan on the cooperative
engineering and development efforts for the SM-3 Block IIA missile through the
preliminary design process. The contract also includes an option for future
studies totaling $9.8 million.

Raytheon and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, under contract to the MDA and Japan's
Ministry of Defense, are developing the next-generation SM-3 Block IIA missile,
scheduled to begin flight testing in 2014. The company says the new missile will
include larger second- and third-stage rocket motors and a larger kinetic
warhead to provide a greater area of defense against sophisticated threats.
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Phoenix Business Journal
September 27, 2010
Raytheon gets $175M Japan contract


Raytheon Co. has received a $175 million contract from the Missile Defense
Agency for a development program with Japan.

The contract continues engineering and development efforts for the SM-3 Block
IIA missile, the next generation of which is scheduled to begin test flights in
2014.

The missile, being developed out of the company’s operations in Tucson, will
be built with larger motors and warheads to make it more effective against
various targets.

The contract covers preliminary design revue, scheduled for early 2011.

Raytheon expects to deploy the missile by 2018 in Europe. It is being developed
by the Department of Defense’s MDA and the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ballistic
Missile Defense System.
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Text Fwd: Pentagon Tests GBI Missile; SM-3s On Way To Europe

* Text informed by Rick Rozoff on June 12, 2010

U.S. Military Test Launches New Missile Interceptor
By Turner Brinton
Space News
posted: 10 June 2010
11:02 pm ET

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on June 6 successfully conducted the first flight test of a smaller version of its ground-based interceptor being developed as a backup option for a European missile shield, the agency said June 6.

The two-stage interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and delivered an operational kill vehicle to a target point in space, as opposed to actually intercepting a target missile, an MDA press release said. Program officials are still analyzing telemetry data from the test, but all indications are that it was a success, the release said.

The two-stage interceptor is derived from the three-stage Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptors now deployed in Alaska and California to defend the United States against long-range missiles. The MDA and GMD prime contractor Boeing Defense, Space & Security of St. Louis were developing the smaller variant to be deployed in Europe to defend allies and deployed forces there, but the White House has since changed course, relegating the interceptor to a backup option in favor of the Raytheon-built Standard Missile (SM)-3 interceptors.

Under a revised plan for European missile defense announced last year, U.S. Navy Aegis ships equipped with SM-3 interceptors will be deployed to European waters in 2011. Land-based SM-3 batteries will be developed and deployed in Poland and Romania in 2015. These interceptors have a successful test record against short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

A larger and more capable version of the SM-3, known as block 2B, is needed to intercept long-range missiles and provide an additional layer of defense for the United States. It is being co-developed with Japan and is not expected to be ready until 2020. Development of the two-stage ground-based interceptor will continue as a hedge against technological problems with the larger SM-3 interceptor.

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Text Fwd: Review Cites Flaws in U.S. Antimissile Program

* All the Image sources: same as the below link

Darcy Padilla for The New York Times
"Theodore A. Postol at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Postol said the SM-3 interceptor must shatter a warhead directly."


(Navy Visual News Service)
'An SM-3 being launched over the Pacific Ocean in 2008. It was used to bring down a nonfunctioning satellite.'
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* Text sent from Bruce Gagnon on May 19, 2010

New York Times

May 17, 2010
Review Cites Flaws in U.S. Antimissile Program

By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

President Obama’s plans for reducing America’s nuclear arsenal and defeating Iran’s missiles rely heavily on a new generation of antimissile defenses, which last year he called “proven and effective.”

His confidence in the heart of the system, a rocket-powered interceptor known as the SM-3, was particularly notable because as a senator and presidential candidate he had previously criticized antimissile arms. But now, a new analysis being published by two antimissile critics, at M.I.T. and Cornell, casts doubt on the reliability of the new weapon.

Mr. Obama’s announcement of his new antimissile plan in September was based on the Pentagon’s assessment that the SM-3, or Standard Missile 3, had intercepted 84 percent of incoming targets in tests. But a re-examination of results from 10 of those apparently successful tests by Theodore A. Postol and George N. Lewis, being published this month, finds only one or two successful intercepts — for a success rate of 10 to 20 percent.

Most of the approaching warheads, they say, would have been knocked off course but not destroyed. While that might work against a conventionally armed missile, it suggests that a nuclear warhead might still detonate. At issue is whether the SM-3 needs to strike and destroy the warhead of a missile — as the Pentagon says on its Web site.

“The system is highly fragile and brittle and will intercept warheads only by accident, if ever,” said Dr. Postol, a former Pentagon science adviser who forcefully criticized the performance of the Patriot antimissile system in the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

In interviews and a statement, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency strongly defended the SM-3s testing record, and said that the analysis by Dr. Postol, an M.I.T. physicist, and Dr. Lewis, a Cornell physicist, was fundamentally mistaken.

“The allegation is wrong,” Richard Lehner, an agency spokesman, said Wednesday. He said the SM-3 is “attaining test scores that many other Defense Department programs aspire to attain.”

Even so, the Pentagon later admitted that 4 of the 10 analyzed flight tests carried no mock warheads at all.

The White House declined to comment on the critique of the SM-3 and referred questions to the Pentagon.

The political implications of the critique are potentially large. Democrats, traditional critics of missile defense, have been largely silent about Mr. Obama’s enthusiasm for this new generation, which for the moment is aimed only at shorter- and mid-range missiles, rather than ones that fly between continents.

During the campaign, Mr. Obama repeatedly criticized what he called President George W. Bush’s haste to deploy unproven antimissile arms. He vowed that as president, he would assure that any defensive shield would meet rigorous standards of testing and effectiveness.

Since last fall, Mr. Obama’s antimissile goals have expanded to include not only countering Iranian missiles, but creating a rationale for deep cuts in the nation’s nuclear arsenal and ultimately for prompting foes to abandon their missile programs.

The deployment of the SM-3 is also seen as essential to convincing Israel that the United States has an effective technology to contain Iran, even if the Iranians obtain a nuclear weapon.

The dispute between the academics and the Pentagon centers on whether it is enough for a speeding interceptor to hit the body of a spent rocket moving through outer space or whether it must hit the attached warhead. Dr. Postol says the SM-3 interceptor must shatter the warhead directly, and public statements of the Pentagon agency seem to suggest that it agrees.

“The interceptors,” the agency Web site says in its basic explanation of antimissile goals, “ram the warhead at a very high closing speed, destroying the target.”

Skeptics generally hold that the antimissile job is so daunting — what the Pentagon calls hitting a bullet with a bullet — that managers and contractors easily fall prey to exaggerating test results.

But technologists call it increasingly doable. Compared with the Bush administration’s land-based system, the SM-3 is fairly small, quickly deployable on ships and has a better reputation.

The interceptor holds what the Pentagon calls an exoatmospheric kill vehicle. In space, it peers through a telescope to guide itself toward the target, sensing telltale heat emanations and using a computer brain to fire thruster jets. The kill vehicle slams into the target and destroys it by force of impact.

Dr. Postol’s critics see him as a pessimist blind to antimissile progress, and his defenders view him as a seer of technical oversight.

During the 1991 Gulf war, the Army put the success rate of the Patriot at over 80 percent in Saudi Arabia and 50 percent in Israel. But Dr. Postol found that brilliant displays of antimissile fire and thunder hid repeated failures of the interceptors to knock out speeding warheads.

The SM-3 analysis of Dr. Postol and Dr. Lewis, “A Flawed and Dangerous U.S. Missile Defense Plan,” appears in the May issue of Arms Control Today, a publication of the Arms Control Association, a private group in Washington.

The study examined video images that the SM-3 kill vehicle took a split second before striking the target and that the Missile Defense Agency subsequently made public. The analysis looked at 10 tests between 2002 and 2009 — all of which the agency hailed as successful intercepts.

But the scientists found that the kill vehicle hit the warhead only once or twice. The rest of the time, the interceptor struck the rocket body — a much larger target.

In combat, the scientists added, “the warhead would have not been destroyed, but would have continued toward the target.”

In an interview, Dr. Postol said the antimissile blow might cause a warhead to fall short or give it an added nudge, with the exact site of the weapon’s impact uncertain.

“It matters if it’s Wall Street or Brooklyn,” he said, “but we won’t know in advance.”

The Pentagon’s rebuttal included a written one vetted by Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency, as well the office of the secretary of defense. It called the analysis “flawed, inaccurate and misleading” and said the alleged SM-3 failures were all, in fact, successes that “did exactly what was expected” as the kill vehicles hit “within inches of the expected impact point.”

But it offered little discussion of whether striking the rocket body in flight tests was sufficient grounds to claim overall success — a seemingly important point given that much of the agency’s public testimony centers on the necessity of hitting warheads to ensure their destruction.

In a series of e-mail messages, Mr. Lehner of the Missile Defense Agency offered more information. On Wednesday, he said the rocket’s violent breakup also demolished the warhead. Asked if the agency had evidence, he replied Thursday that readings from test sensors “prove conclusively” that mock warheads “were destroyed and were no longer a threat.”

Mr. Lehner added, however, that target missiles in 4 test flights carried no mock warheads, but rather “a nosecone with a weight up front for ballast.” The 4 flights with no warheads — which Dr. Postol and Dr. Lewis included in their analysis of 10 interceptions by the SM-3 — included 3 early ones and a flight last July, the most recent in their analysis.

Informed of the Pentagon’s response, Dr. Postol said he had no idea about the lack of warheads. He also questioned whether the destroyed warheads represented military designs or frail impostors. Real nuclear warheads streaking through the void of space are extremely rugged objects, designed to withstand the fiery heat of atmospheric re-entry as well as intense buffeting and shaking.

“A mock warhead may be extremely fragile compared to a real one,” Dr. Postol said.

Mr. Lehner disagreed. On Friday he called the fragility claim “absolutely not true.”

Representative John F. Tierney, a Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform national security subcommittee, said in a statement that the SM-3 reanalysis raised serious questions.

“Congress will need to look into them further,” he said. “The American people deserve to know about the system’s actual capabilities and have a right to expect that their tax dollars are being spent effectively.”

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[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Laser Jet Blasts Ballistic Missile in Landmark Test 레이저 제트, 이정표가 되는 실험에서 탄도 미사일을 폭파시키다

* Image source: Joins, Dec. 12, 2008, 'Airborn laser'
(original photo: Boeing Press Release photo)

* Though the nose added in the plane, the laser works.


* Image source: Chosun, Feb. 17, 2010
*Chosun is the conservative Korean newspaper. It introduces the diagram of the airborne laser
whose successful test was on Feb. 11, 2010.
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* Sent by Bruce Gagnon on Feb. 16, 2010 브루스 개그논, 2010년 2월 16일 보냄


WIRED
Laser Jet Blasts Ballistic Missile in Landmark Test
레이저 제트, 이정표가 되는 실험에서 탄도 미사일을 폭파시키다.
By Noah Shachtman 노아 섀치트맨 씀
February 12, 2010 2010년 2월 12일





The American military has been working since 1996 on a tricked-out [Boeing] 747 that could blast ballistic missiles out of the sky with a ultra-powerful laser. After 14 years of promising “the American people their first light saber,” the Missile Defense Agency finally pulled it off Thursday night [Feb 11] at 8:44 p.m.

미국 군대는 1996년 이후 하늘에서 초강력 레이저로 탄도 미사일을 폭팔할 수 있는 개조된 [보잉]747에 작업해왔다. ‘미국민들에게 첫 광선검’을 약속한 지 14년 후, 미사일 방어국 (Missile Defense Agency)은 목요일 밤[2월 11일] 8시 44분에 마침내 그것을 빼내었다.

It’s one of a number of steps forward for real-life ray guns in the past year or so. “Solid state” electric lasers finally hit what’s commonly considered battlefield strength. A laser-equipped Air Force gunship disabled a truck with its energy beam. A ground-mounted ray gun blasted drones out of the sky. But all of those energy weapons were weak — and the engineering challenges limited — compared to last night’s shoot-down.

이는 작년 등 실재 [이용할 수 있는] 광선총(ray guns)을 향한 여러 진일보된 발걸음들의 하나이다. “고체 상태” 전자 레이저는 마침내 통상적으로 고려되는 전장 [무기]를 맞춘다. 레이저로 장착된 공군 무장 헬리콥터 (gunship)는 에너지 빔으로 트럭을 못쓰게 했다. 지상에 탑재된 광선총은 하늘의 무인 비행기를 폭파시켰다. 그러나 이 모든 에너지 무기들은 지난 밤 명중에 비교하면 약했고 공학적 도전이 남아 있었다.

A short-range, Scud-like ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform near the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center, off of the central California coast. “Within seconds, the Airborne Laser Test Bed [ALTB] used on-board sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting,” according to a statement from the Missile Defense Agency. [Update: That's the video of Thursday night's test, above.]

단거리, 스커드와 같은 탄도 미사일이 캘리포니아 중부 연안 포인트 무구 해군 공중 전쟁 센터(Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center) 근처 해안에서 떨어진 해상 이동 발사대에서 발사됐다. 미사일 방어국 (Missile Defense Agency, MDA )의 성명서에 따르면 “몇 초안에 공수 레이저 실험대 (Airborne Laser Test Bed [ALTB])는 기내 장치된 감지 장치를 이용, 추진 [단계]의 미사일을 간파하고 목표물을 맞추기 위해 저에너지를 사용했다. 그리고 나서 공수 레이저 실험대는 공전 장애 (atmospheric disturbance)를 측정하고 보충하기 위해 두번째 저 에너지를 발사했다. 마침내 공수 레이저 실험대는 메가와트급 고에너지를 발사하여 추진 [단계]의 탄도 미사일을 맞춰 그것의 결정적 구조적 실패로 까지 이어갔다. 전체 교전[실험]은 목표 미사일 발사 이 후 2분도 안돼 끝났는데 [목표 미사일의] 로켓 발동기는 아직도 세게 움직이고 있었다” 라고 한다. [엎데이트: 위의 비디오가 목요일 밤 실험의 엎데이트입니다.]

This is a test the MDA was hoping to conduct in 2002, after spending about a billion dollars. But the Airborne Laser ran into all kinds of problems along the way. The chemicals the jet depended on to generate its high-strength laser weighed down the 747. Getting the laser to accurately zap through the atmosphere proved tougher than anticipated. The Airborne Laser eventually ballooned into a $7.3 billion project. Finally, Defense Secretary Robert Gates got so fed up, he told the MDA to end the Airborne Laser program after a single jet.

이는 미사일 방어국이 10억 달러를 쓴 이 후 2002년에 행하려 희망했던 실험이었다. 그러나 공수 레이저는 그 길에서 많은 문제들에 부딪혔다. 제트기가 고강력 에너지를 발생시키기 위해 의존했던 화학용품은 747을 내리눌렀다. 대기를 뚫고 정확한 사격을 하는 레이저를 획득하는 것은 예상했던 것보다 힒듬이 드러났다. 공수 레이저는 결국 73억 달러 프로젝트로 부풀었다. 마침내 국방 장관 로버트 게이츠는 싫증이 나서 미사일 방어국에 단 한번 [레이저] 제트기 [분출] 후 공수 레이저 프로그렘을 그만두라 말했다.

“I don’t know anybody at the Department of Defense who thinks that this program should, or would, ever be operationally deployed,” Gates told Congress last year. “The reality is that you would need a laser something like 20 to 30 times more powerful than the chemical laser in the plane right now to be able to get any distance from the launch site to fire.”

“저는 국방부에서 이 프로그램이 작전에서 배치되어야 한다고, 또는 하리라고 생각하는 사람을 알지 못합니다,” 라고 게이츠는 작년에 미국회에서 말했다. “현실은 당신이 발사 장소에서 발사까지 거리에 도달할 수 있기 위해서는 현재 비행기의 화학 레이저보다 20~30배 더 강한 레이저를 필요로 한다는 사실입니다.”

So, right now the [jet] would have to orbit inside the borders of Iran in order to be able to try and use its laser to shoot down that missile in the boost phase. And if you were to operationalize this you would be looking at 10 to 20 747s, at a billion-and-a-half dollars apiece, and $100 million a year to operate. And there’s nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a workable concept.

그러므로 현재 레이저 [제트기]로 추진 단계의 미사일을 맞추기 위해 레이저를 시도나 사용할 수 있도록 하려면 이란의 국경 안을 회전해야 한다. 그리고 여러분이 이것을 실제 작전으로 하려 한다면 개당 15억 달러가 들고 운영할려면 1년에 1억 달러가 드는 가운데 [성공률은] 20747 횟수중 10번인 것을 보게 된다. 내가 아는 한 군복을 입은 사람가운데 이것이 작동할 수 있는 개념이라 믿는 사람은 아무도 없다.

But Gates did add that the concept of using laser and other speed-of-light “directed energy” weapons to knock down missiles still had promise. It might be the only way to stop missiles in “boost phase” — when they were just getting off of the ground.

그러나 게이츠는 미사일을 맞출 수 있는 레이저및 다른 광속 “유도 에너지 directed energy” 사용 개념들이 아직도 약속할 수 있는 것이라는 것을 덧붙였다. 그것만이 “추진 단계’의 미사일-그것들이 지상에서 막 떠날때-을 멈추게 하는 유일한 길일지 모른다.

That’s why many in the military will be excited about Thursday night’s test. As the MDA notes, it’s the first time a laser in the sky has successfully downed a missile. And even if this particular weapon doesn’t work out, the technology developed can be used for later systems. “The revolutionary use of directed energy is very attractive for missile defense, with the potential to attack multiple targets at the speed of light, at a range of hundreds of kilometers, and at a low cost per intercept attempt compared to current technologies,” the agency notes.

그것이 왜 군대의 많은 이들이 목요일 밤 실험에 흥분할 이유이다. 미사일 방어국이 주목하듯 하늘의 레이저가 성공적으로 미사일을 맞춰 떨어뜨린 것은 이번이 첫번째이다. 그리고 이 특별한 무기가 작동되지 않는다 하더라도 개발된 기술은 레이저 시스템으로 사용될 수 있다. 방어국은 “이 유도 에너지의 혁명적 사용은 현재 기술과 비교할 때 요격 시도당 저렴한 가격으로 광속으로 수백 킬로 미터 떨어진 무수한 목표물들을 공격할 수 있는 잠재성을 갖춘, 미사일 방어망에 매우 매력적인 것이다.” 라고 쓴다.

“Less than one hour later,” there was a second test, with another missile. The Airborne Laser lit it up. But didn’t destroy the thing. That test was for another day.

“1시간도 지나지 않아,” 또 다른 미사일로 두 번째 실험이 있었다. 공수 레이저가 그것을 환히 밝혔다. 그러나 그 것을 파괴하진 못했다. 그 실험은 또 다른 날을 위한 것이었다.

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Text Fwd: Pro-Missile Defense Group Loves Obama

* From Bruce Gagnon on Feb. 5, 2010

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

MDAA ALERT Thursday, February 4, 2010

"Change We Can Believe In" Dear Members and Friends, We are pleased to announce "Change We Can Believe In". Early this week, President Barack Obama's Administration and the Department of Defense announced a substantial increase to the 2011 Missile Defense Budget. The amount, $9.42 billion, equals a 6.13 percent increase from the 2010 budget. This increase, $577 million, recovers close to half the amount that was cut by the President and Secretary Robert Gates a year ago. President Obama has heard the American People; last year a national poll showed nearly nine out of ten people supported missile defense in the United States. This trend was seen across party lines as Democrats, Republicans and Independents were nearly equal in their support. Nearly eight in ten Americans (78%) think research and development of new missile defense systems to protect against future ballistic missile threats is extremely or very important. The majority of the American Public opposed the $1.2 billion cut that President Obama made last year to Missile Defense. Click Here for May 2009 Poll To take the change in context, President Obama's Missile Defense Budget request is 1.19 percent of the Department of Defense Budget. The funds are used for non-lethal and purely defensive weapons systems that do not harm or kill. There is no question as the threat continues to advance more support continues to be needed. One outstanding concern of the President's 2011 budget request is the lack of deployed sensors, communications and integration that would fully enable the Administration's Missile Defense Plan to achieve one of its goals; to defend our regional interests, including our deployed troops and allies, in the time frame he set out. Another concern is the continued modernization of the GBIs and the bi-annual testing required for high confidence in the system. We are in a world that presents a devastating threat to our public safety and national security as our President clearly stated "Now, even as we prosecute two wars, we're also confronting perhaps the greatest danger to the American people -- the threat of nuclear weapons." Among the highlights of the 2011 Missile Defense Budget Request are: Increase of development funding of $359 million for the Ground Based Interceptors. Plans to construct 38 GBI silos and to buy 56 GBIs. A significant reversal from the 30 silos and 44 GBIs from last years request. Increase of 249 THAAD (142) and AEGIS SM3 (107) land and sea-based regional missile defense interceptors for a total of 867 by 2015. Upgrades of 3 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Ships. Addition of three new Missile Defense programs: $256 million for the Land-Based SM3 program that will go to over a $1.0 Billion by 2015. $99 million to Directed Energy Programs. $67 million for a future space based satellite sensor constellation called Precision Tracking Space System (PTSS) that will go to $1.2 Billion by 2015. Increase to $1.47 billion (up $31 million) for the AEGIS program. Increase to $1.0 billion (up $52 million) for the Patriot Terminal Defense interceptors and systems. Increase to $1.11 billion (up $290 million) for missile defense testing and targets. Increase to $319 million (up $63 million) for co-development with Japan on the Sea Based SM3-BlockIIa interceptor. Click here for the FY2011 Missile Defense Agency Budget Request This is "Change We Can Believe In."

Respectfully, Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance Click Here to visit MDAA's website Click Here to join MDAA Click Here to visit MDAA's Blog Click Here to learn more about MDAA

[SAVE 8 Vandenberg Arrested] Text Fwd: PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ROUGHED UP, ARRESTED BY OBAMA'S PENTAGON [밴던버그] 평화적인 시위자들, 오바마의 미 국방부에 의해 거칠게 다루어지고 체포되다.

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To see Bruce Gagnon's writing on this issue, PLEASE GO BELOW DOWN.
이 이슈에 관한 브루스 개그논 글은 밑을 내려가시길 (국문 번역).
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2010년 2월 2일
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ROUGHED UP, ARRESTED BY OBAMA'S PENTAGON
평화적인 시위자들, 오바마의 미 국방부에 의해 거칠게 다루어지고 체포되다. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Related blog:
Solidarity Call_No ICBM Launch Test, Jan. 31, 2010
1월 31일 밴던버그 미사일 발사 실험 반대

[국문 번역] Reuters 로이터U.S. to test missile shield vs. Iran-style strike 미국 미사일 실험 대이란 스타일 공격

Related Sites:
Vandenberg Witness 밴던버그 증인
Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

UPDATE 7: Slide Fwd: El Segundo (LA) Space and missile Center (regarding the Vandenberg ICBM launch in June 2010)
from MacGregor Eddy, Vandenberg Witness on Feb. 11, 2010,
슬라이드 포워드: 엘 세군도 (로스엔젤레스에 있는) 우주 미사일 센터(2010년 6월에 있을 밴던버그 ICBM 미사일 발사와 관련)
2010년 2월 11일 밴던버그 증인 맥그리거 에디로부터
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UPDATE 6: (Feb. 8, 2010)Text Fwd: [MacGregor Eddy from Vandenberg Witness]
맥그리거 에디, 밴던버그 증인으로부터, 2010년 2월 8일

"The policy at Vandenberg is to detain, write up a citation and then release you to await a summons to federal court. So we are always released after the detention. The Security Investigations department at Vandenberg told me it not an arrest because the military does not have the authority to arrest civilians."
밴던버그 정책은 감금하고 인용문을 쓴 후 연방 법원으로 부터의 소환을 기다리도록 당신을 풀어주는 것입니다. 그러므로 우리는 감금된 이후 항상 풀려집니다. 밴던버그 보안 조사부는 군대는 시민들을 체포할 권위가 없기 때문에 체포가 아니라 말했읍니다. (For detail. see 세부는: HERE)

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UPDATE 5: It is heard that she has been released by now but the news is still in check (Feb. 6, 2010).
현재 석방 소식을 들었으나 더 확인중 (2010년 2월 6일)_____________________________________________________________________
UPDATE 4: UPDATE on Feb. 6, 2010: MacGregor Eddy is still detained since Feb. 3 vigil (Uploaded on Saturday, February 6, 2010)
맥그리거 에디, 2010년 2월 6일 평화 침번 이후 아직 감금되어 있음_______________________________________________________________________

UPDATE 3: Korean petition result for the 8 Vandenberg arrestees
(Uploaded on Saturday, February 6, 2010)
밴던버그에서 체포된 8명 석방을 위한 한국인 서명 결과(영문)

* [국문] Text Fwd: 긴급: 미 밴던버그 공군 기지앞에서 체포된 8인의 석방 촉구와 미 정부를 비판하는 한국인 연대 청원및 보도 자료_______________________________________________________________________

UPDATE 2: All were RELEASED But Wait 전원 석방되었으나 기다려 보세요.

Here is MacGregor Eddy on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:39 PM (North East American time)
맥그리거 에디가 미 북동부 시간으로 2010년 2월 3일 1시 39분에 보낸 편지입니다.

"I am on my way to Vandenberg now. There is a vigil every first Wednesday and Bud Boothe and Dennis Apel are determined to be there. I am on a bus down. Wait until we see what happens today"__ MacGregor Eddy
"밴던버그로 가는 길에 있어요. [매 달]첫번째 수요일마다 침번이 있고 버드 부쓰와 데니스 아펠도 그 곳으로 가기로 결심했어요. 버스에서 [곧] 내릴 거예요. 오늘 우리에게 무슨 일이 일어날 지 기다려 보세요."__ 맥그리거 에디
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UPDATE 1: REGULAR MONTHLY PEACE VIGIL
(From Vandenberg Witness website)

There will be a Peace Vigil at Vandenberg AFB on Wednesday, Feb 3. We will assemble at 3 pm at Vandenberg AFB front gate (6 miles north of Lompoc on Highway One Santa Barbara county).

For further details call MacGregor Eddy at 831-206-5043 or e-mail macgregoreddy@gmail.com
See short presentation about Vandenberg at:

http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dfpxc5ff_677dhqjvpc9&interval=5&autoStart=true&loop=true

UPDATE: Jorge Manly-Gil was released from jail.

See story of launch and protest in both, the Santa Barbara Independent and Santa Maria Times at:

http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/local/military/article_a08214c4-0efb-11df-a6e8-001cc4c03286.html

http://www.independent.com/news/2010/feb/01/missile-mishaps/
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Please write and send a protesting letter to
Barak Obama, President of the United States.
You can also call to the President:

미국 바락오바마 대통령에게 항의하는 편지를 써서 보내세요.
대통령에게 또한 전화 (/팩스)하실 수 있읍니다.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Please include your e-mail address
Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
TTY/TDD

Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121

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To See the original source, go to HERE.
발단 자료는 여기를 클릭하시길 (국문 번역).
[국문 번역: EMERGENCY: Vandenberg Protest on Jan. 31] EIGHT ARRESTED - ONE INJURED
[긴급: 1월 31일, 밴던버그 시위] 8명 체포, 1명 상해
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* Image source: Independent News on Feb. 1, 2010
Ian Gonzaga, Santa Maria Times
“Protestors gather in front of Vandenberg Air Force Base on Sunday”
* 이미지 소스: 인디펜던트 뉴스, 2010년 2월 1일 (번역 진행중)
이안 곤자가 , 산타 마리아 타임즈
"[2010년 2월 1일] 일요일 밴던버그 공군 기지 앞에 모인 시위자들"

For More Vandenberg Photos in the Past, see HERE.
더 많은 밴던버그 사진들을 위해서 여길 가시길.

* Image source: Vandenberg Witness 밴던버그 증인
Dennis Apel arrested in 2007, as well. 2007년에도 체포되었던 데니스 아펠
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* Image source: same as the below link

'The front gate signs at Vandenberg AFB in California covered up by the military during a previous peaceful protest
캘리포니아주 밴던버그 공군 기지 정문 앞 사인이 이전의 평화적인 시위 때 군대에 의해 뒤덮였읍니다.' _____________________________________________________________________

Bruce Gagnon blog 브루스 개그논 블로그

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2010년 2월 2일
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS ROUGHED UP, ARRESTED BY OBAMA'S PENTAGON
평화적인 시위자들, 오바마의 미 국방부에 의해 거칠게 다루어지고 체포되다.

Is this how Obama thanks those who are taking his call for the abolition of nuclear weapons seriously? He has then roughed up and arrested for standing with signs outside Vandenberg AFB in California while his Pentagon fires “missile defense” tests in the sky above the Pacific Ocean?

이것이 오바마가 핵무기 제거를 청하는 그의 요청을 진지하게 받아들이는 사람들에 대해 감사를 표하는 방법입니까? 그는 그리고 나서 그의 국방부가 태평양 하늘 위로 “미사일 방어” 실험을 할 때 캘리포니아 주 밴던버그 공군 기지의 바깥에서 푯말을 들고 있는 사람들을 거칠게 대했고 체포했읍니다.

For years people have been protesting outside Vandenberg AFB when the base launches missiles. Now and then the military police would grab one of the organizers and arrest them but often nothing was done at all. But on January 31, just as another $150 million “missile defense” test was launched from the base, the Obama led Pentagon had virtually everyone who was at the protest, legally standing outside the base, arrested. In one case the military police threw Judy Evered onto the ground where two security guards held her with one soldier's knee in her back. Her subsequent booking was interrupted because she had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance for a shoulder injury she sustained after she was already in custody. Evered, a member of WILPF, is in her 80’s.

몇 년 동안 사람들은 기지가 미사일을 발사할 때 밴던버그 공군 기지 외곽에서 시위해 왔읍니다. 이따금 헌병들은 조직가들의 한 사람을 움켜잡고 체포했으나 종종 아무런 일도 전혀 일어나지 않았읍니다. 그러나 1월 31, 또다른 1억 5천만 달러의 “미사일 방어 실험”이 기지에서 발사되었을 때 오바마가 이끈 미 국방부는 합법적으로 기지 바깥에 서 있던 시위의 거의 모든 사람들을 붙잡았읍니다. 한 경우는 헌병이 쥬드 에버레드를 땅에 눕히고 두 경비병이 그녀를 붙잡은 동안 한 헌병이 그녀의 등위에 무릎을 올려 놓았읍니다. 그녀의 이후 과정은 중단되었는데 왜냐하면 그녀는 이미 유치장에 있은 후 어깨 부상으로 앰뷸런스로 병원에 옮겨져야 했기 때문입니다. 에버레드는 평화와 자유를 위한 국제 여성 연맹 (WILPF)의 회원으로 80대의 노인입니다.

This was a particularly important “missile defense” test because the Pentagon promoted it as a practice to simulate “a nuclear attack by Iran”. Of course Iran has no nuclear weapons today nor does it have any launch vehicles capable of reaching the continental U.S. But truth and facts don’t matter when you are out to create a new enemy in the minds of the American people. Fiction becomes reality, war is peace. Brainwashing it is called.

이것은 특별히 중요한 “미사일 방어” 실험이었는데 왜냐하면 국방부는 이를 “이란에 의한 핵 공격”을 가상하는 연습으로 홍보해왔기 때문입니다. 물론 이란은 오늘날 아무런 핵 무기도 갖고 있지 않으며 미 대륙에 도착할 발사 차량도 갖고 있지 않습니다. 그러나 진실과 사실은 당신이 미국인들의 마음에 새로운 적을 만들려 할 때 문제가 안됩니다. 소설은 현실이 되고 전쟁은 평화입니다. 뇌세척이라 불리지요.

In the first test of its kind involving Vandenberg, an ICBM launched from the Marshall Islands (known as the Ronald Reagan Test Range) was aimed at southern California. The Ground-Based Interceptor launched from Vandenberg, about 60 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, lifted off at around 3:45 pm, but did not succeed in shooting down the target missile (supposedly from Iran) which was launched six minutes earlier from the Reagan Test Range.

밴던버그가 관여한 실험 종류의 첫번째 실험에서 대륙간 탄도 미사일은 마샬 군도(로널드 레이건 실험장으로 알려진) 로부터 캘리포니아 남쪽으로 발사되었읍니다. 산타 바바라에서 북서쪽으로 60 마일 떨어진 밴던버그 공군 기지에서 발사된 지대 미사일은 오후 약 3시 45분 경에 이륙했으나 콰잘렌 아톨의 먼 끝에 있는 로널드 레이건 실험장에서 6분 일찍 발사된 목표물을 맞추는 데 성공하지 못했읍니다.

“They completely dismantled the demonstration,” said protest organizer MacGregor Eddy who is a WILPF and Global Network member. She went onto reiterate that the base was told well in advance of the demonstration which was initially scheduled for January 21, as was the interceptor test, both of which were grounded due to large southern California storms at the time.

“그들은 시위를 완전히 파괴했어요,” 하고 WILPF 소속이자 글로벌 넷워크 회원이면서 시위 조직자인 맥그리거 에디는 말했읍니다. 그는 또한 처음 1월 21일에 잡혔던 시위가 요격 실험이 그랬던 것처럼 사전에 기지에 충분히 보고 되었다는 것을 반복했는데 두 번 다 당시 남 캘리포니아 큰 폭풍때문에 좌초되었읍니다.

Since November, the new base commander has decided to require I.D.s from demonstrators. There is no way that a base commander, on his own, is going to start demanding ID’s from legal public protesters and make such a decision to completely disrupt and arrest eight out of the eleven people at a peaceful vigil. These orders have come from higher up and in the end the president of the U.S. has to be held responsible for escalating this provocative attack on peaceful protest outside a U.S. military base.

11월 이후, 그 기지의 새 사령관은 시위자들에게 신분증을 요구하기로 결정했읍니다. 한 기지 사령관이 스스로의 결정에 의해 합법적으로 시위하는 대중들에게 신분증을 요구할 것을 시작하고 평화 시위를 하던 11명중 8명을 완전히 방해하고 체포할 수는 없읍니다. 이 명령은 상부로 부터 나왔으며 결국 미군 기지 바깥의 평화적 시위에 자극적인 공격을 촉진한 것에 대해 미국 대통령이책임을 물어야 힙니다.

Obama talks big about wanting disarmament but then he qualifies this by saying that it might not happen “in his lifetime.” Then he moves, two years in a row, to increase military spending and continues the Bush administration policy of surrounding Russia and China with “missile defense” systems that are actually part of the U.S. first-strike program. The U.S. “missile defense” systems would pick-off any retaliatory missiles fired by Russia or China after the U.S. had launched the initial attack. The U.S. Space Command has actually been computer war-gaming such a first-strike attack on China for the past several years.

오바마는 비무장을 원한다고 선전하나 그리고 나서 “그 자신의 평생동안” 일어나지 않을 지도 모른다고 합리화합니다. 그리고 나서 그는 2년이 지났는데 군사 지출 을 증가하고 실제로 미국 선제 공격 프로그램의 부분인 “미사일 방어망 시스템”으로 러시아와 중국을 봉쇄하려는 부쉬 행정부 정책을 계속하려 움직입니다. 미국 “미사일 방어"시스템은 미국이 첫 공격을 개시한 후 러시아나 중국이 발사하는 어떠한 보복 미사일도 낚아챌 것입니다. 미국의 우주 사령부는 지난 몇 년간 중국에 대한 첫번째 선제 공격 컴퓨터 전쟁 게임을 해왔읍니다.

In a statement prior to the January 31 missile launch Western States Legal Foundation Director Jacqueline Cabasso said, “Further, U.S. development of missile defenses endangers prospects for deeper U.S. and Russian nuclear arms reductions and threatens to scuttle agreement on a follow-on to the START treaty. To add insult to injury, every U.S. test launch from the Marshall Islands causes tremendous environmental damage to surrounding land and water areas and compounds the historical injustice to the indigenous Marshallese people.”

1월 31일 미사일 발사 이전에 있었던 성명서에서 서부 주 법 재단 감독 채클린 카바소는 말했읍니다. “미국의 미사일 방어 개발은 더 진지한 미-러 간 핵 무기 축소에 대한 전망을 위협하며 전략 핵무기 감축 조약의 실천을 위한 동의안에 구멍을 내도록 위협합니다. 상처에 모욕을 덧붙여 마샬 군도에서 발사되는 모든 미국의 실험들은 주변의 땅들, 물이 있는 곳들의 거대한 환경적 오염의 원인이 되고 마샬 제도 원주민들에 대한 정의롭지 않은 역사를 더합니다.”

Obama can’t have it both ways. He can’t go around talking nice about nuclear disarmament and then continue taking active steps to develop and test new generations of advanced war fighting systems and expect that Russia and China will just sit back and watch without reacting. And if Obama was serious about real nuclear disarmament he would not allow his Pentagon operatives to harass, rough up, and arrest activists who are legally opposing wasteful and destabilizing missile tests. You don’t treat your political allies in such a manner.

오바마는 양쪽을 다 가질 수 없읍니다. 그는 비핵무장에 대해 멋있게 말한후 첨단 전쟁 전투 시스템의 새로운 세대를 개발하고 실험하기 위해 적극적인 스텝을 밟는 것을 계속하며 러시아와 중국이 단지 뒤로 물러나 반응없으리라고 기대할 수 없읍니다. 그리고 오바마가 진짜 핵 무장에 대해 진지하다면 그는 그의 미국방부 작전들이, 낭비적이고 불안정하게 하는 미사일 실험에 대해 합법적으로 반대하는 활동가들을 괴롭히거나 거칠게 하거나 체포하도록 할 수 없읍니다. 당신은 당신의 정치적 동지들을 그렇게 대하지 않습니다.

Once again we see the clear evidence that Obama is the quintessential magician – he says one thing but if we closely watch his other hand we see the revelation of his real agenda, which is nothing more than a continuation of the Bush war making program, but this time with a friendly smile and a well-turned phrase.

우리는 다시 한번 오바마가 본질적으로 마술사라는 것에 대한 명확한 증거를 갖습니다. – 그는 한 가지를 말하나 우리가 그의 다른 손을 주시한다면 우리는 그의 진짜 안건이 드러나는 것을 보는데 그것은 부쉬의 전쟁 만드는 프로그램을 계속하는 것 이상이외 아닙니다. 그러나 이 경우 우호적인 미소와 유려한 구절로서 말입니다.

[국문 번역] U.S. to test missile shield vs. Iran-style strike 미국 미사일 실험 대이란 스타일 공격

*Image source: same as the below link

* Source: Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

U.S. to test missile shield vs. Iran-style strike
미국 미사일 실험 대이란 스타일 공격
By Phil Stewart and Jim Wolf
필스튜어트와 짐 울프
14 December 2009 2009 년 12월 14일
Reuters
로이터

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will test its core missile defenses for the first time in January against a simulated long-range Iranian attack, a top Pentagon official said on Monday, amid tensions with Tehran.

워싱턴(로이터)- 테헤란과의 긴장이 진행되는 와중, 미국은 처음으로 이란의 가상 장거리 [미사일 발사] 공격에 맞서 [2010년] 1월, 자신의 핵심 미사일 방어 실험을 할것이라고 미 국방부의 수석 관리가 말했다.

Speaking at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington, Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, the head of the Missile Defense Agency, said the roughly $150 million test was a departure from the more standard scenario of a North Korean attack.

워싱턴의 우주 항공 및 방어 정상 회담에서 미사일 방어국 수장인 육군 중장 패트릭 오레일리는 로이터에게 약 1억 5천만 달러 ($150 million )가 나가는 이 실험은 더 기준적인 시나리오인 북한에 대항하는 것으로부터의 이탈 (departure) 이라 말했다.

It also would be more difficult testing the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system against a missile that would be faster and more direct as it races toward the United States than a simulated strike from North Korea.

이것은 미국 지대 중거리 방어 (Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)) 시스템의 더 어려운 실험으로 미국으로 향할 때 북한으로 부터 오는 가상 공격보다 더 빠르고 더 직접적인 미사일에 대항하는 것이 될 것이다.

"Previously, we have been testing the GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario," O'Reilly said.

“이전에 우리는, 북한 타입의 시나리오에 맞서 지대 중거리 방어 실험을 해왔었다,” 오레일리는 말했다.

"This next test ... is more of a head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different scenario."

“ 이 다음 실험은.. 더 첫 머리에 맞추는 것과 같은데 미국으로 진입하는 이란의 공격시 방어로 사용하게 될 것이다, 그러므로 이것은 다른 시나리오에서 우리가 실험하는 첫번째 것이 될 것이다.

His comments came the same day that diplomats disclosed concerns among intelligence agencies that Iran tested a key atomic bomb component as recently as 2007. The finding, if proven true, would clash with Iran's assertion that its nuclear work is for civilian use.

그의 언급은 이란이 최근 2007년도에 핵심 핵 폭탄 요소들을 실험했다는 정보 기관들의 우려를 외교관들이 공개한 것과 같은 날에 나왔다. 알려진 것이 사실이라면 핵 작업이 민간용이라는 이란의 주장과 충돌할 것이다.

The test would fire an interceptor missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at a simulated incoming missile, launched from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. An aide to O'Reilly estimated the cost at about $150 million.

그 실험은 태평양 마샬 군도에서 날아오는 가상 진입 미사일에 캘리포니아 공군 기지로부터 요격 미사일을 발사하는 것이다. 오레일리의 보좌관은 그 가격을 약 1억 5천만 달러로 산정했다.

Experts compare the simulation to a bullet hitting another bullet in space. O'Reilly said the goal was to destroy the target over the north central Pacific when the missiles had a combined closing speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour.

전문가들은 그 가상 [실험]을 우주에서 총알 하나로 다른 총알을 맞추는 것에 비교한다. 오레일리는 그 목표가 미사일들이 시간당 1만 7천 마일 이상의 합친 종료 속도를 지닐 때 북 중앙 태평양 위로 날아오는 목표물을 파괴하는 것이라고 말했다.

"Whenever we have a situation where we're taking on a missile more head on than from the side, that increases the challenges," O'Reilly said.

“우리가 옆으로 나는 것보다 더 머리로 날아 오는 미사일에 맞서는 상황을 맞을 때마다 도전은 더 증가한다.”라고 오레일리는 말했다.

RUSSIA, JAPAN 러시아, 일본

U.S. President Barack Obama revamped the U.S. missile defense strategy for Europe in September to focus more on Iranian short- and medium-range missiles.

미국 대통령 바락 오바마 는 [2009년] 9월에 이란 단, 중거리 미사일에 맞서기 위해 유럽에 대한 미국 미사일 방어전략을 재편했다.

"The development of that (Iranian) long-range threat has been slower than what was originally estimated, and the pace of the medium-range missiles is dramatically higher," he said.

“ (이란) 장거리 위협의 개발은 원래 생각햇던 것보다 더뎠고 중거리 미사일의 보조는 극적으로 높다.”라고 그는 말했다.

Obama's revamp may clear the way for collaboration with Russia, which had fiercely opposed a Bush-era plan to put ground-based interceptors in Poland and a related radar system in the Czech Republic.

오바마의재편은 러시아와의 결합을 더 분명하게 할 것인데 러시아는 폴란드에 지대 요격 미사일과 체코에 관계된 레이다 시스템을 놓는 부쉬 시대의 계획에 맹렬하게 반대한 바 있다.

O'Reilly said Washington and Moscow were in regular contact to exchange ideas on possible collaboration.

오레일리는 워싱턴과 모스크바가 가능한 결합에 대해 생각을 나누기 위해 정기적으로 접촉하고 있다고 말했다.

"We've proposed a large number of ideas, starting with sharing data from their sensors and our sensors, moving all the way to cooperative development, cooperative testing and so forth," he said.

“우리는 그들 센서와 우리 센서의 데이타를 교환하는 겻부터 시작해서 협조적 개발, 실험 등등 많은 생각들을 제안해 왔다.”라고 그는 말했다.

"So they have expressed an interest, and shown it through subsequent technical working group meetings."

“그래서 그들은 관심을 표현했고 그 이후의 기술 작업 모임 회의를 통해 그 것을 보여 줬다. “

Turning to Japan, O'Reilly said that the new Japanese government had reaffirmed its commitment, in talks with him last month in Tokyo, to develop the next generation of SM-3 interceptors.

일본으로 화제를 돌리며 오레일리는 새 일본 정부가 토쿄에서 자신과의 대화에서 차세대 SM-3 요격기를 개발하기 위한 일본의 사명감을 재확인시켰다 말했다.

Boeing Co is the prime contractor for the GMD and Raytheon is the prime contractor for the SM-3.

보잉 회사는 지대 중거리 미사일의 주요 계약 업체이며 레이시온은 SM-3 의 주요 계약 업자이다.

"I just recently returned from a joint review with the Japanese. We are committed to that program and they have expressed that they remained committed," he said.

“나는 일본과의 공동 심의에서 최근 돌아왔다. 우리는 그 프로그램에 사명감을 갖고 있으며 그들은 그들이 그 사명감을 가진 채로 남아 있다”고 그는 말했다.

He said the new SM-3 missile would be about twice the weight and twice the range of the previous generation.

그는 그 새로운 SM-3 미사일이 이 전 세대보다 무게이 있어 2배이며 2배 이상의 거리를 지니고 있다 말했다.

"And there are obviously opportunities for follow-on. But right now we agreed we are focused on the development to ensure that is successful first," he said.

“그리고 실천할 분명한 기회들이 있다. 그러나 우리는 현재 그 것이 무엇보다 성공적인 것을 보증하도록 개발에 집중할 것에 동의했다” 라고 그는 말했다.

(안드레아 샬랄-에사에 의한 추가 보고; 에릭 비치에 의한 편집) (Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Eric Beech)

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* Source: Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
27 January 2010 2010년 1월 27일
Missile-defense test scheduled for VAFB
밴던버그 미사일 -방어 실험 일정이 다시 짜여지다.
By Janene Scully, Associate Editor 지닌 스컬리, 편집자
Lompo Record 롬포 레코드

"The Ground-based Midcourse Defense system’s last intercept test occurred in December 2008, when the target launched from Kodiak, Alaska, was successfully hit by a Vandenberg interceptor. At the time, MDA officials called it the 37th successful hit-to-kill intercept out of 47 attempts against missiles of all ranges since 2001.

지대 중거리 방어 시스템의 마지막 요격 실험은 알라스카 코디악에서 발사된 목표물이 밴던버그 요격 미사일에 의해 성공적으로 명중된 2008년 12월 일었다. 그 때 미사일 방어국의 관리들은 그것을 2001년 이후 모든 거리의 미사일에 대항하는 47개의 시도중 37번째 성공적인 죽이기 위해 부딪치는 (hit-to-kill) 요격으로 불렀다.

Operational interceptors currently are deployed at Vandenberg and Fort Greely, Alaska."

작전 요격은 현재 밴던버그와 알라스카 포트 그릴리에 배치되어 있다.

For the full article, see, Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Text fwd: Northrop Grumman to support BMD early-intercept program

* The country is Korea in the diagram above.

* All image source: Global Security

Informed by StopNATO on Nov. 21, 2009
UPI (United Press International)
NG to support BMD early-intercept program
Published: Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM

RESTON, Va. - Northrop Grumman has received a task order to support the U.S.
Defense Department early-intercept ballistic missile defense program.

U.S. company Northrop Grumman was awarded the contract to provide the Missile
Defense Agency with support for demonstration experiments designed to assess
potential sensor technologies for early interception of missile threats.

Officials say Northrop Grumman will be expected to design and develop an
experimental command and control architecture that will enable an evaluation of
sensors for countering medium and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.

"For the company and our customer, this initiative leverages Northrop Grumman's
legacy Kinetic Energy Interceptors and command, control, battle management and
communications expertise and technology to advance a critical and promising
capability," Karen Williams, Northrop Grumman Information Systems vice president
for Air and Missile Defense Systems, said in a statement.

"For the taxpayer, early intercept ensures previous investments in Kinetic
Energy Interceptors will be applied judiciously to various aspects of the
missile defense system to improve the ability to defeat threats to our nation."
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