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European Missile Defense Could Include Additional, Mobile Radar: Obering

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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An additional, mobile radar that could operate in a nation such as Turkey might be added to the fixed-site radar envisioned for installation in the Czech Republic and the interceptor ground silos planned for Poland, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Under current plans, "We have a forward-deployment radar somewhere in the far Southeastern Europe," in addition to the permanent Czech-emplaced radar, he said. That extra, mobile radar would fill…

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