Can 'Hit-To-Kill' Work Consistently?

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Weapons research - Brief Article

Despite an apparently successful mid-summer test, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, director of the Defense Department's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, admitted that he still is not "totally comfortable" saying "that we can make the hit-to-kill technology work consistently" in the National Missile Defense Program.

"And it not only has to do with the actual collision of the vehicles," he said to a group of military journalists "It has to do with: Can we get the vehicle in the right place to accomplish this? Does it have enough margin...