text: Boeing Paid $20 Billion by Military for Defective Missile Systems - 24/7 Wall St.
  Boeing Paid $20 Billion by Military for Defective Missile Systems
  By Douglas A. McIntyre	September 7, 2016 11:55 am EDT
  The so-called Ground-based Midcourse Defense system (GMD), the brainchild of the administration of former President George W. Bush, was designed to launch missiles from underground silos to counter potential nuclear attacks by North Korea, Iran and other hostile countries. In six of 11 tests between 2002 and early last year – all carefully choreographed and timed to try to maximize the success rate — the U.S. anti-missile system missed destroying mock enemy warheads high above the Pacific Ocean.