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To: i-node who wrote (166824)	4/7/2003 1:36:37 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579826

SDI uses missile-to-missile? I thought it was Star Wars. Maybe they've changed it. I'm no expert, I admit. Just heard about the tests and the deployment. A lot of it is pretty secret stuff.

To: i-node who wrote (166824)	4/8/2003 4:03:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579826

Patriot's software systems were almost totally developed as part of SDI. The missile is amost incidental, and was never intended as an anti-missile missile. Huh? It seems there is not uniform agreement with your view. What a surprise: ________________________________________________________ Patriot Missile Air Defense System army-technology.com ____________________________________________________________ fas.org Patriot's Success Will Not Spin-off To SDI Program PATRIOT'S SUCCESS WILL NOT SPIN-OFF TO SDI PROGRAM (WASHINGTON, D.C.) The success of the Patriot missile defense system in the Persian Gulf is unlikely to help the beleaguered "Star Wars" program, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee said today. The congressman's remarks came as the committee began its secret review of weapons performance in the Gulf War and just days before the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) is expected to ask Congress for a massive budget increase for the coming year. "We can all be proud of the Patriot system," said Congressman Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.), "It is the kind of practical, workable anti-missile system we should be producing. But those who are trying to piggyback their own pet programs on the back of this success story are sadly misinformed. Here are the facts about Patriot and SDI: The Patriot program has nothing to do with SDI. It is funded and managed by the Army Air Defense Program Office and has not gotten a penny of the $23 billion given to SDIO. SDI has little to do with defeating tactical ballistic missiles. Congress has tried for years to get SDIO to focus more on this threat, but without success. In 1990, the SDI program spent $130 million on tactical ballistic missile defense, out of a total budget of $3.8 billion. Congress has for the first time directed the SDI program to spend a specific amount on anti-tactical ballistic missile defenses, but that is only $180 million for fiscal year 1991. The small portion of SDI that deals with anti-tactical ballistic missile weapons is researching ground-launched systems, such as ERINT and THAAD. These would be comparatively cheap compared to the Brilliant Pebbles' plan to launch thousands of weapons satellites with debatable ability to reach down and defeat the low-altitude tactical ballistic missiles. The Patriot missile system has followed a careful evolutionary approach to developing the capability to shoot down tactical missile; whereas SDIO proposes a huge leap to the much more technically demanding problem of shooting down intercontinental ballistic missiles."