1. American military plans to develop a new interceptor missile to stop short-range missiles have also disturbed the Russians. 2. And others wonder what might happen if the interceptor missile fired from across the gulf passed its target and kept plowing toward the Keys. 3. A dozen U.S. interceptor missiles are launched in defense. 4. But Stockwell declined to say that the president would take part in a decision to actually fire interceptor missiles. 5. First, the target missile was heated, presenting a larger bulls-eye for heat-seeking sensors on an interceptor missile. 6. Five existing ones would be improved and a new one built in Asia to help alert the force of interceptor missiles of enemy attack. 7. Last fall an interceptor missile successfully destroyed its target, but almost by accident. 8. The problem did not involve the interceptor missile itself, but rather a transmitter used to monitor the test. 9. The prototype interceptor missile developed by the Clinton administration has so far proved highly unreliable in tests. 10. The two previous tests of interceptor missiles had mixed results. |