U.S. To Deploy Missile Defense System, Overlooks Test Failure

Despite the recent test failure of a U.S. missile defense system, the U.S. military officials announced the plans to deploy the system in Alaska.

The Pentagon spokesperson said the unsuccessful test on Friday of a Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) was no reason to scrap deployment of the weapons in Alaska.

“There are no plans to change our expansion to 44 Ground Based Interceptors,” a spokesperson said further.

The Pentagon announced in March it plans to deploy 14 additional GBI missiles at Fort Greely in Alaska by 2017.

The missiles are in addition to 30 already deployed in Alaska and California, representing a 50 percent increase in GBIs on the continent.

The four tests of GBIs which cost $70 million each, since 2010 it has all ended in failure.