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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (37400)	9/25/2009 4:40:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Can't actually "deploy" TODAY what hasn't been tested or built yet. In a sense that statements true, but only because the "or". Also its based on faulty assumptions. You can't deploy what "hasn't been built or tested yet", because if something has neither been built or tested, then it hasn't been built, and so it doesn't exist, and so it can't be deployed, but you can deploy something that hasn't been tested (and you can build the infrastructure for something that hasn't been built, and building the infrastructure is most of what it takes to do the deployment). But more important to the discussion is the faulty assumptions that statement is based on. Land based ABMs and radar, have been built and tested. In fact they've even been deployed. Widely deployed in your using ABM in the broad but technically accurate sense that would include any missile that can shoot down ballistic missiles (so Patriot PAC3 or even old ordinary Patriots like the ones we used in the Gulf War would be ABMs); deployed in very low numbers if your talking about the types of missiles that are being talked about in this current situation. ---- 3rd missile interceptor field for Fort Greely The Associated Press Posted : Thursday Feb 8, 2007 17:03:25 EST FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The military is adding a third missile interceptor field to Fort Greely as part of an expansion of the nation’s anti-ballistic missile program. The agency has 13 missile interceptors on two fields at Fort Greely, a base about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, and expects to add another missile by the end of the month, according to spokesman Rick Lehner in Washington, D.C. Plans call for 21 interceptors in silos by the end of the year... armytimes.com ---- Also see en.wikipedia.org