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DoD: No Need For East Coast Missile Interceptors

Monday, March 26th, 2012

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A general who oversees homeland missile defense said recently he sees no military need to place missile interceptors on the East Coast of the United States. Army. Gen. Charles Jacoby, who establishes requirements for homeland missile-defense capability, told Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) the Iranian missile threat does not warrant the emplacement of ground-based interceptors along the U.S. Atlantic coast. “Today’s threats do not require an East Coast missile field and we do not have plans to do so,” Jacoby told…

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