Obering: Eastern European GMD Site No Threat to Russia

By Ashley Roque / January 25, 2007 at 5:00 AM
Ground-based rocket interceptors placed in Eastern Europe would not be geographically positioned nor even technically capable of intercepting Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, the head of the Missile Defense Agency told reporters today. "We cannot physically catch the Russian interceptors even if we were targeting or trying to target those missiles," Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering said during a teleconference. "The interceptors that we [would] have there -- in addition to there being a very, very small number of them...

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