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Sunday, September 30, 2012
A $380 Million Defense Boondoggle
With the Pentagon eyeing $500 billion in mandatory defense cuts that even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says go too far, the United States Senate Appropriations Committee seems intent on doing even more damage to America's military by squandering precious resources on a missile system that will never be put to use.
The Defense Department has acknowledged that the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) will never be operational, and with good reason.
MEADS was concocted as a means to intercept medium-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones -- essentially an unnecessary duplication of the Patriot Missile system that has been one of America's successes since the first Gulf War.
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