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To: Sarkie who wrote (2165)	6/14/2002 1:29:15 PM
From: PatiBob	Respond to of 6378

Wait until they have one of their own kind experience something like this..........

To: Sarkie who wrote (2165)	6/14/2002 4:18:35 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 6378

I love this...it's "IN YOUR FACE!" Don't mess with us! We're playing by our own rules now! US sea-based missile test a success 6/14/2002 12:49:00 PM HONOLULU, Jun 14, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A ship-based missile defense system being developed for the Navy notched its second consecutive hit during a test launch off the coast of Hawaii Thursday, the same day the United States formally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. A STANDARD Missile-3, or SM-3 launched from the cruiser USS Lake Erie scored a hit on a modified Minuteman missile after flying some 300 miles at a speed of 8,500 feet per second, according to Raytheon, the manufacturer of the SM-3. "This success moves Raytheon, the Navy and the Missile Defense Agency another step closer to deployment of the Sea-based Midcourse Defense system," said Edward Miyashiro, Raytheon's vice president for Surface Naval Air Defense Systems. "The STANDARD Missile-3 has been designed to be easily transitioned from development to deployment. ... This will make the system available for emergency operations, if necessary." Raytheon said Thursday's test at the Pacific Missile Range Facility demonstrated a growing reliability of the SMD's engines and its ability to receive guidance commands from the Lake Erie's AEGIS weapons system. The SMD system is being developed as a means of using Navy cruisers and destroyers to shoot down both medium-range and intercontinental nuclear missiles. Because of its mobility, the system could someday be used to protect the continental United States, U.S. ships and ground forces operating in other parts of the world. Although sharply criticized by Russia and other nations, the United States has decided to move forward with the development of an anti-missile shield as a defense against a limited nuclear attack launched by a terrorist-backed government or one of the so-called "rogue" states that might someday field a small arsenal of nuclear warheads. In order to proceed with the program, the Bush administration withdrew the United States from the 1972 ABM treaty with the then-Soviet Union. The withdrawal took effect Thursday, six months after the United States announced its intention to cancel the Cold War deal and proceed with the development of its controversial missile shield. "With the treaty now behind us, our task is to develop and deploy effective defenses against limited missile attacks," President Bush said in a statement. "As the events of Sept. 11 made clear, we no longer live in the Cold War world for which the ABM Treaty was designed." (Reported by Hil Anderson in Los Angeles) Copyright 2002 by United Press International.