US offer to deploy anti-missile defense system either in Turkey, Azerbaijan or Qatar

PanARMENIAN.Net - The already existing possibilities on two American bases in Europe for missile interception in conjunction with the front-based RLS planned to be exploited by 2012 make it feasible to protect more than 99% of America's population from Iran's potential missile threats.



Along with the plans to set up a location area for anti-missile defense system in Poland and Czech Republic the members of US Congress Committee on the Budget suggest three other alternatives. Two of them are supposed to set up the anti-missiles on the bases of Ramstein(Germany) and Incirlik(Turkey), the third one -on US naval vessels near the coasts of Romania, eastern Italy and, Poland. One more front-based RLS could be set up in Azerbaijan and Qatar, as the researchers assume.



The cost for all these alternatives is almost the same- approx. $ 9-14 billion within 20 years' time, except the naval RLS which is almost twice expensive than the rest. The naval-based anti-missile defense system will cost $18-26 billion since it supposes a construction of new vessels.

The authors consider the technical challenges of all three projects to be manageable. As they admit, their calculations have initially been based on the assumption that all the systems will start "functioning as initially planned." Finally another key criterion refers to the area to be defensed. Europe's full defense is not ensured in any of the alternatives discussed, even in theory.



As to US they give preference to surplus defense echelon with the bases located in Poland and Czech Republic. The experts say that with its help it could be possible, for instance, to intercept Iranian missiles (most probably over the territory of Russia, by the way), to estimate the effectiveness of this attempt, and if the necessity arises to operate the anti-missile defense system right in US already.