U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times.
“The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I’m very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened by a long-range ICBM that I’ve got high confidence that I could interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S. territory,” said Air Force Gen. Victor E. “Gene” Renuart, Northcom commander.
And all these years all I have ever heard was that “Star Wars” was a stupid waste of money by a warmonger Republican president.
BTW, was Gen. Renuart interviewed and photographed on dress-down Friday?
The Air Force has had an optional short blue jacket for years, and that’s what Gen. Renuart was wearing in lieu of the Class “A” uniform coat. I used to wear one like it when I was on active duty.