Weather Delays Full Flight Test of Missile Defense System

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The headline says it all, folks!
How utterly ridiculous is this?


Weather Delays Full Flight Test of Missile Defense System
The Associated Press
Published: Dec 9, 2004


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Bad weather Wednesday forced the military to scrub the first full flight test of its national missile defense system in nearly two years.

"It is just heavy cloud cover," Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said of conditions Wednesday evening off the Alaskan coast.

The launch was being put on hold for 24 to 48 hours.

The $85 million test comes as the military is in final preparations to activate missile defenses designed to protect against an intercontinental ballistic missile attack from North Korea or elsewhere in eastern Asia.
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