This just confirms Russia's fears!
"U.S. Official Calls Russian Radar Good, but Not Exact Enough for Tracking Plan" by THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 —The first American military officer to visit the Russian radar said Friday that he came away with three significant impressions. The radar is huge, almost twice the size of a similar American system. Despite its reliance on outdated vacuum-tube technology, the system is extremely able as an early-warning radar scanning the skies over the Middle East.
But the officer, Maj. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, also said that the Russian early warning system would not be an adequate replacement for the American radar proposed for the Czech Republic.
General O’Reilly: "[Despite the system’s older technology], I was impressed by what I saw. It would be a false impression to dismiss the capabilities they have. They just chose another way of achieving it. It is an excellent radar for the case of early warning.”
Then we can take Putty-put up on his offer?
The radar has been well maintained and upgraded since its design in the 1970s and construction in the 1980s, prompting General O’Reilly to report back to Washington that the Russian system offers an extremely desirable ability for early warning of a ballistic missile attack from a country like Iran.
O.K., then!
Don't have to spend money on it if the Russians can already do it, right?
But General O’Reilly stressed that the Russian radar was not designed to perform the same function as the American radar proposed for the Czech Republic.
WTF?!?! Not designed for the alleged purposes?
That means the Russian fears are legitimate? Being designed FOR THEM!
General O’Reilly said he was surprised by the sheer size of the system, which filled two buildings — one 17 stories high and one 8 stories. Russian military technology is known for designs that are super-size, an outgrowth of Soviet strategy in which a centrally planned economy could push huge sums of rubles to the military to counter American technological superiority.
Good thing AmeriKa doesn't useless plow money into a Military-Industrial Complex like the Russians did, huh, Amurkn?
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that while the United States hoped to proceed with building the two missile defense sites in Europe, it might delay activation of the system until there was “definitive proof” that Iran posed a missile threat to Europe. He defined such proof as the test flight of an Iranian missile with enough range to strike the continent.
Gates, at the Pentagon on Thursday:
“It’s a pretty straightforward threshold. And our belief is we will see those flight tests considerably sooner than the Russians seem to think we will see those flight tests.”
Now WHAT does THAT MEAN?
I'm smelling the strong stench of an USraeli FALSE-FLAG OP!!!!!
