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A long time and they were suddenly faced with the requirement to actually go deploy something. >> a spokesman for the agency says it respect fully disagrees with that characterization but doesn't deny the allegations of failed systems now shelved. among them, a project called the airborne laser, 747s equipped with chemical lasers that would incinerate enemy missiles. that program cost $5.3 billion according to "the l.a. times" but was scrapped because the planes would have had to fly too close to an enemy's borders. then there's the kinetic enemy interceptor. cool name but the "times" says it ...

>> this went on for seven minutes. >> copy. >> recovery operational. >> the commitment of these soldiers are clear. >> i say your nation is grateful, we are so grateful for your service. >> then technology of ground based missile defense is more controversial. in test of the system the success rate is only about 50 percent. >> engineering problems just foreground base mid course system. >> a report released on january 27th of this year by the pentagon's director of operational tests and evaluation raised serious questions about the kill vehicle's ability to hit the target. >> tlr two questions...

>> this went on for seven minutes. >> copy. >> recovery operational. >> the commitment of these soldiers are clear. >> i say your nation is grateful, we are so grateful for your service. >> then technology of ground based missile defense is more controversial. in test of the system the success rate is only about 50 percent. >> engineering problems just foreground base mid course system. >> a report released on january 27th of this year by the pentagon's director of operational tests and evaluation raised serious questions about the kill vehicle's ability to hit the target. >> tlr two questions...

This far. but our ability to intercept it and stop it is also a tricky, tricky thing to pull off. look at the things we would use for this. two-stage missile, we would launch out of alaska or california releasing something like this. this is called an kill vehicle. it's got the propulsion youtuun around there. it's got an infrared guidance in the nose. it will guide this in to actually smash into that at about 17,000 miles an hour and tear it apart. it does not explode. this is about as big as a refrigerator. it just smashes into it and tears it apart. you can imagine how difficult that is tho...

Systems would send the coordinates of the flight back to these response missiles which would then fire and go up and try to hit it and take it out. ideally, they would like to hit it early on or in the middle and at a last resort, way over here. but they want numerous shots at it so they can stop it. that's really the goal. and they have to have numerous shots because this is all still fairly new technology and it's not all entirely reliable. as i said, we don't know that the north koreans at this point can really get a missile to go this far. but our ability to intercept it and stop it is als...