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Business/Financial

Obering: Using Aegis Ships To Block Iranian Missiles Would Require European Defense Radar

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Monday, February 16th, 2009

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United States May Not Have Time, Until 2013-2015, Before Iran Develops Nuclear-Tipped ICBM While some in Congress think the United States could cancel the European Missile Defense (EMD) program and substitute the sea-based Aegis/Standard Missile system, the ships still would require data from the EMD radar to be effective, the former Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director said. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, who stepped down as MDA director in November, also said that intelligence estimates that…

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