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Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar

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Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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Provision Doesn't Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide $89 million for activation and deployment of an AN/TPY forward-based X-band missile defense radar. Just which nation would host the radar isn't specified in the amendment because that is classified. That amendment was sponsored by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), and it also drew co-sponsorship from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman…

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