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Limitations and Artificialities in the Testing Program

December 2004
 
 


This graphic illustrates the many limitations and artificialities in the testing program of the ground-based midcourse missile defense system currently being developed. It demonstrates that the successes in the current test program say essentially nothing about the performance of the system in an operational situation against a real attack. Click the labels in red boxes for more detail on individual program flaws.
 


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