The Pentagon is quietly working to set up an elaborate network of defenses to protect American cities from a barrage of Russian cruise missiles.
The plan calls for buying radars that would enable National Guard F-16 fighter jets to spot and shoot down fast and low-flying missiles. Top generals want to network those radars with sensor-laden aerostat balloons hovering over U.S. cities and with coastal warships equipped with sensors and interceptor missiles of their own.
One of those generals is Adm. William Gortney, who leads U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, and North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. Earlier this year, Gortney submitted an “urgent need” request to put AESA radars on the F-16s that patrol the airspace around Washington. Such a request allows a project to circumvent the normal procurement process.
While no one will talk openly about the Pentagon’s overall cruise missile defense plans, much of which remain classified, senior military officials have provided clues in speeches, congressional hearings and other public forums over the past year. The statements reveal the Pentagon’s concern about advanced cruise missiles being developed by Russia.
“We’re devoting a good deal of attention to ensuring we’re properly configured against such an attack in the homeland, and we need to continue to do so,” Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a May 19 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington.
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Don't kid yourself. If they have to shoot down missiles in U.S. airspace the debris will fall and still kill many of us.
ReplyDelete951-Still kill many of us? Like that rocket that blew up near Wallops? Or the rocket that just blew up over Cape Canaveral?
ReplyDeleteIt didn't blow up over! It hardly made it off the ground.
DeleteThis should also help to protect against an offshore launch of an EMP weapon.
ReplyDelete(9:51-- I don't think that will be a significant problem.)
These giant targets wont be easy to take out?
ReplyDeleteDon't anyone remember that these things are also used for spying on the public. The call to shoot them out of the sky? These things are cops! A tool to help people think they're good for us but really just a way to intrude.
ReplyDeleteThe rockets that were BLOWN UP 10:05
ReplyDeleteThey tried this on Cudjoe Key, FL for many years trying to spot drug smugglers. So many were lost/ damaged by ground fire they gave up on them! People would literally cut the tether with rifle fire!
ReplyDeleteRemember our government was also launching some type of spy balloon along the Chesapeake Bay area supposedly to guard inland waterways. There was an article maybe approximately 6 months ago I think. Yesterday I saw a plane flying low over residential area. The plane was painted black on the entire bottom, and the top was a whitish bright gray color it didn't make any loud noise but I found it a strange type of plane not usually the kind you normally see overhead. I have also seen on many occasions a plane with a satellite dish attached to the top of it flying overhead and it doesn't appear going or coming from the same direction.
ReplyDeleteIs that the new fire blimp? I see that it grew an appendage.
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