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    "An expensive Billion Dollar white elephant dreamed up by people in the Oil Industry as a way of getting the tax payer to pay for oil rig development and the cost of maintaining the rig building yards. It is the worst kind of military pork barrel project. It is just a juicy cheap drone target. One cutprice Iranian or Korean cruise missile or sea skimmer and it is toast. Half the time it is never even on station."

    Being that its whole purpose is to detect missiles, i dont think it would be that easy to destroy. apparently, i t has the power to track a baseball-size object in the san Fransisco area from Chesapeak (spelling) bay. at least we know we'll be ready if north korea decides to attack us with baseballs. from the bay area. and apparently it rarely leaves its station in the Bering sea...and it cost 900 million, not a billion

    :D

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    First off, i live on Whidbey island, Washington, home to the prowlers (and now growlers!) of VAQ-129 through -142, or something like that. Puget sound, where our island is, has like 3 naval bases, and driving home today, i saw this in the waterway seperating us from the mainland:

    http://www.missilethreat.com/repository/imgLib/20071203_xband.jpg

    is it just me or does this look like something straight outta James Bond? its a missile defense platform, the "Sea-Based X-Band to be exact", and was driving itself to be repaired at one of our naval shipyards.

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