Senator Wayne Allard (R-Co) talks to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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U.S. Senator Calls for Star Wars
The next stage of the U.S. missile defense shield should be the deployment of satellites armed with missiles, U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard said Tuesday in Colorado Springs, The Gazette reported.
“It’s important to the longterm security of this country,” Allard said Tuesday in Colorado Springs at the National Space Symposium attended by over 7,500 representatives of the U.S. space and defense community.
The senator also said that the space-based missiles would counter the enemy’s ballistic missiles better than the ground shield stationed in California and Alaska.
The satellite defense would offer a faster response than the ground-based facilities, Allard pointed out. “It’s quicker and more flexible.”
Allard made his statement in time when the senators set to considering the 2009 defense budget, where the military asks for $10 million for Space Test Bed, the project for space-based missile defense research.
According to Allard, the space defense will protect against the states with nuclear ballistic missiles and against possible threat of ICBM-armed terrorists.
The satellites will use missile-defense facilities for the kinetic kill, which is simpler than the laser-armed satellites of earlier proposals. “This is definitely not Star Wars,” the senator said as quoted by The Gazette.
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