The Missile Defense Agency has told Congress it can put eight additional interceptors in the ground in Alaska by 2015 if directed to do so, bringing to 38 the total number of interceptors that would be available to a combatant commander, an agency spokesman told InsideDefense.com . The agency's planned total number of interceptors is 30; 26 in ground-based silos at Ft. Greely, AK, and four in silos at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, MDA spokesman Rick Lehner said. "We...
