The United States is committed to the development of interception systems, which is a patriot's air defense missile.(Internet)
(Morning News) In the early years of the United States, the Boeing Corporation had developed a long -range missile interception device, but the US Department of Defense announced on Wednesday (21st) that due to technical problems, the item will be terminated by nearly $ 1.7 billion (about 1.7 billion yuan for about S $ 1.7 billion) The plan and officially took effect the next day.
It is reported that the Ministry of National Defense will invite enterprises to bid to develop a new generation of interception systems that can fight against Sino -Russian supersonic missiles.
The US Department of Defense has previously commissioned Boeing to develop a revised version of the destruction and interception system (RKV) to more accurately intercept North Korea's long -range missiles developed against the United States.
The U.S. Department of Defense now has 44 interception systems mainly located in Alaska, but has never been put into actual combat.It is not known whether the Ministry of National Defense will continue to use the existing system since then.
It is reported that the cost of modifying the technical problems of RKV is too high, so the US Department of Defense, deputy Minister of Defense, who is responsible for the project, said that after the measurement was measured, it was decided to put the plan to put it on hold.
Officials emphasized that the suspension plan was the decision of the Ministry of National Defense, not that Boeing failed to complete the contract.Boeing later issued a statement saying that accepting the decision to terminate the contract and will support the development of new missiles.
