What a Revamped U.S. Missile Shield Might Look Like


by Nathan Hodge
Wired - 2009-09-18



Details are now emerging on the Obama administration’s plans to revamp missile defense to better counter the emerging Iranian missile threat.

President Barack Obama yesterday announced that he would scrap George W. Bush’s plan to park missile-defense interceptors in Poland and place an X-band radar in the Czech Republic. Speaking yesterday to reporters, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered the new rationale.

“Over the last few years, we have made great strides with missile defense, particularly in our ability to counter short-and-medium-range missiles,â€