Investment Needed for NATO Missile Defenses

[ErnstBlofeld]

Aviation Week and Space Technology/Amy Butler:

 

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says his staff estimates that an alliance-wide territorial missile defense system would cost about €200 million ($245 million) over the next 10 years.

 

This is above the €800 million ($1.2 billion) investment already required to field theater missile defenses designed to protect deployed troops.

 

Rasmussen says the funding required is a “modest additional cost to achieve so much.” He spoke with U.S. press during a Defense Writers Group breakfast Sept. 7 in Washington.

 

 

Edited September 23, 2010 by Rheo
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