More Wonders From the 'Star Wars' Folks...

As part of the so-called Missile Defense system, the brains behind the boondoggle have come up with the ultimate radar dish. It's so big that they have to post it in the middle of the ocean:U.S. to Float Giant Missile-Defense Radar to Alaska


This X-band radar array is supposed to help the Missile Defense system track incoming missiles and distinguish between decoys and the real mccoy. Well, if it works, that's all well and good. But it seems to me that a radar dish of this size would be rather vulnerable, particularly since it's sitting the in middle of the ocean! According to the article, it's the size of two football fields. That's a big target! Any country capable of launching an ICBM attack against us certainly has submarine's capable of stealthy attacks on this thing. But I'm sure the Pentagon has thought of that.

I hope.

More later...
Paul