Failure to launch

Gregg Carlstrom | July 24, 2009 8:09 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

The Israeli military has been testing a missile defense system off the coast of California (playing with missiles in the heavily-populated Mediterranean being a bad idea). Here's how the AP summarizes the tests.

Tests of a missile-defense system meant to shield Israel from Iranian attack were aborted over the past week on three occasions because of various malfunctions, Israeli defense officials said Thursday... [in the latest case], communications glitches between the missile and the radar led US defense officials to abort the test before an intercepting missile could be fired, they said.

The IDF calls this a "partial success." For the sake of Californians, I hope we don't find out what the IDF considers a failure.

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