1. For example, the Pentagon wants to upgrade a Cobra Dane early warning radar on Shemya Island in the Aleutians for tracking test missiles. 2. Instead, test missiles will be fired from a state-owned site on Kodiak Island off the Alaskan coast. 3. It made test attack missiles larger than what they would really be. 4. It did manage to identify one star successfully, Raytheon said, and then found a decoy balloon that had been released by the test missile. 5. It underscored that position last June by firing six test missiles near Taipei and staging military exercises in the Taiwan Straits. 6. Pentagon officials say Fort Greely would initially be used as simply a storage site and command center for launching test missiles from Kodiak. 7. Pentagon officials say Fort Greeley would initially be used as simply a storage site and command center for launching test missiles from Kodiak. 8. Test missiles would be stored at Fort Greely, allowing crews to practice maintenance procedures and testers to check whether rocket fuel deteriorates in Arctic temperatures. 9. The Beijing government lobbed several test missiles close to the island and staged massive military exercises that simulated a water invasion. 10. The officials also say the Cobra Dane radar could be used to track test missiles fired from aircraft over the Bering Sea. |