| *スペース・アラートの下記記事中の論文(『アームズ・コントロール・トゥデイ』2010年5月号掲載、ジョージ・ルイス、シオドール・A・ポストル論文)は、次号『世界』(8月初旬に発売予定)にて田窪雅文さん(核情報」主宰)の翻訳で掲載されるそうです。 http://www.space4peace.org/newsletter/Space_Alert_22.pdf
The New York Times reported on May 17 that the Aegis destroyer based “missile
defense” interceptor program has not been performing as claimed by the
Pentagon. The Navy had been suggesting that the testing program of the SM-3 interceptors
was going quite well (they said that 84% of the tests hit their targets),
and in 2008 we know they fired one of the missiles into space to knock
out a failed satellite proving that the interceptors had “anti-satellite”
(ASAT) weapons capability. But new studies by scientists Ted Postol (MIT)
and George Lewis (Cornell) “finds only one or two successful intercepts for a success rate of 10 to
20 percent.” The Times report continues, “ Most of the approaching [enemy nuclear] warheads, they say, would have been knocked off course but not destroyed. While that might work against a conventionally armed missile, it suggests that a nuclear warhead might still detonate. At issue is whether the SM-3 needs to strike and destroy the warheadof a missile as the Pentagon says on its Web site. NYタイムズの記事はさらに以下のように続ける。 「彼ら(*上記科学者)が言うには、接近中の弾頭(敵の核弾頭)の大半は、迎撃され進路がそれたであろうが破壊されてはいなかっただろう、とのことだ。それは核弾頭ではないミサイルに対しては機能するかもしれないが、核弾頭であればやはり起爆する可能性があることを示す。問題は、国防総省がそのホームページに載せているようにSM-3が敵のミサイルの弾頭を迎撃して破壊する、そのことが必要なのかどうかである。」 “The political implications of the critique are potentially large. Democrats,traditional
critics of missile defense, have been largely silent about Mr. Obama’s
enthusiasm for this new generation, which for the moment is aimed only
at shorter- and mid-range missiles, rather than ones that fly between continents.” This is a huge story because the Pentagon had been fooling everyone until this Postol- The Navy anticipates a surging demand in the next 10 years for Aegis BallisticMissile
Defense (BMD) systems and hopes to fund the installation of these interceptors
on 60 naval cruisers and destroyers through 2024. By June 2010 the Navy
will have 21 Aegis BMD-capable ships online. The SM-3 analysis of Dr. Postol and Dr. Lewis, “A Flawed and Dangerous U.S.Missile Defense Plan,” appears in the May issue of Arms Control Today, a publication of the Arms Control Association in Washington.(*) *(http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_05/Lewis-Postol ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION : May 2010 Raytheon Corporation is pushing hard to internationalize the Navy Aegis
SM-3program and currently has a customer base that includes the Netherlands,
Spain, Germany,Australia, and possibly South Korea and the UK. Edward Miyashiro,
Deputy General Manager for Raytheon Missile Systems told Space News this
spring, “We’rethe largest missile supplier in the world, and we have a
number of programs that we look at for growth. We have an expanding international
customer base…. There are a lot of countries out there knowledgeable about
what the U.S. is doing with SM-3.” ![]() |
updated:July 22, 2010 →top page