The United States threw out more than $ 10 billion on ineffective military projects, the media found out

The US defense department spent more than $ 10 billion on ineffective military projects, the Los Angeles Times found out. According to the newspaper, this conclusion was made on the basis of the study of thousands of pages of specialists, hearings in the US Congress, documents of various ministries, as well as interviews with dozens of specialists in defense and space technologies. The publication calls four projects, the work on which was frozen after hundreds of millions or billions of dollars were invested in them.

One of the most costly was the creation of the X-band of the marine base (SBX), which was designed to become the core of the global missile defense system about the United States. Although the radar is able to identify objects at large distances, “however, the viewing area is so narrow that it is almost completely useless to reflect missile attacks”, Lat states. Now the radar installation, mounted on a rebuilt self-propelled floating oil platform, is rusting in the port of Perl-Harbor in the GVAI islands. Initially, it was assumed that the radar would go into service in 2005. The cost of this program is about $ 2.2 billion.

Lat notes that this project was not only ineffective in itself, but also created a gap in national security, since the money spent could be invested in traditional ground -based tracking systems.

According to the publication, the total losses of the United States under programs in the field of about 10 billion dollars have been in the last decade, TASS reports. So, at least three projects turned out to be unsuccessful. This is the development of an air-based laser designed to destroy ballistic missiles in the initial phase of the flight (closed in 2012 after $ 5.3 billion), the creation of kinetic energy interceptors (the program was closed in 2007 after six years of development and $ 1.7 billion) and the construction of a multiple Kille Kille Kille Killing Ship. Vehicle). The project is frozen after four years of work and research, for which they allocated $ 700 million.

According to the interlocutors of Los Angeles Times, irrational expenses show the inability of the US anti -missile defense agency to conduct an independent assessment of military projects.