Let me see if I understand what happened here
They knew when the mock warhead would be launched They knew from where it would be launched. They knew what its trajectory would be.
And the interceptor failed to launch. Because of "some kind of anomaly" (which means, "how da fuk I know?")
sigh…
U.S. Missile Defense Test Fails
Latest Setback in Pacific Fuels Doubts About System's Future
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 16, 2004; Page A05
The Bush administration's effort to build a system for defending the country against ballistic missile attack suffered an embarrassing setback yesterday when an interceptor missile failed to launch during the first flight test of the system in two years.
Pentagon officials could not immediately explain the reason for the failure. They said some kind of anomaly prompted the automatic shutdown of the launch sequence just 23 seconds before the interceptor was due to take off from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Plans had called for the interceptor to soar into space and knock down a mock warhead fired from Kodiak Island in Alaska about 16 minutes earlier.
