Last August, I wrote that we can quickly adapt U.S. aircraft to intercept ballistic missiles early after they are launched, provided we have prepared to do so. My claims were pertinent because our intelligence community had recently acknowledged North Korea could have 60 nuclear weapons — and it had recently tested ballistic missiles that could reach Guam (a U.S. territory), Hawaii, Alaska, and the continental United States.
Then I heard only “crickets” from the Trump administration until last week, when Missile Defense Agency Director USAF Lt. General Samuel Greaves testified before the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He noted that F-35 fighters — flown by Air Force, Navy, and Marine pilots and available to our many commands around the world — could play important missile defense roles, including to employ its Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) against ballistic missiles, as I had proposed last August.
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