(Click here for a printable version of this interview) In this installment of Ask an Expert, staff at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation spoke with Philip Coyle about the U.S. National Missile Defense program. Coyle, who is a Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, has a wealth of […]
Missile Defense
GAO Issues Blistering Report on National Missile Defense: Still Not Reliable, Still Not Adequately tested
By John Isaacs The National Missile Defense program based in Alaska and California, which is designed to protect the United States from a North Korean or Iranian missile attack, continues to be unreliable. That is the conclusion of a February 17, 2016 General Accountability Office (GAO) report on missile defense concerning the Ground-Based Midcourse system […]
LA Times Quotes Phil Coyle on Air Defense System “JLENS”
How a $2.7 billion air-defense system became a ‘zombie’ program Unknown to most Americans, the Pentagon has spent $2.7 billion developing a system of giant radar-equipped blimps to provide an early warning if the country were ever attacked with cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying weapons. After nearly two decades of disappointment and delay, the […]
Kingston Reif Quoted on Limits of Missile Defense in Global Security Newswire
Antimissile System Held Back by Kill Vehicle: Pentagon By Rachel Oswald Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The United States’ principal homeland missile defense program against a feared long-range attack by North Korea or Iran made little demonstrable headway last year in moving beyond a restricted capacity to defeat a small-scale threat, according to a new […]
Next Government Article on Mobile Missiles Quotes Phil Coyle
Air Force eyes return of mobile nuclear missiles By Bob Brewin January 9, 2013 The Air Force has dusted off plans more than two decades old to place fixed nuclear missiles on rail cars or massive road vehicles to protect them from a surprise attack The service also wants to explore alternatives to traditional missiles […]
