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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Turkey to Host U.S. Missile Defense

AN/TPY-2Riki Ellison, Founder and Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, has commented on the U.S. placing a missile defense system in Turkey. Ellison is one of the top foremost lay experts in the field of missile defense in the world. His comments include the following:

United States missile defense assets will be placed in Turkey that will help protect Europe, the U.S. and Turkish territory from Iranian ballistic missile threats. Turkey, a country which borders Iran and is a participating member of NATO, is going to play a vital role in missile defense to contain Iran's continued proliferation of ballistic missiles and future nuclear capability.

These assets, namely the AN/TPY-2 Forward-Based X-Band radars that would be coupled with Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries that can handle missile salvo raids, will provide early sensing and the future capability to remotely launch and engage with sea- and land-based interceptor missiles.

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