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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Australia may duck behind U.S. missile shield Wed Jul 16 2003 00:22:11 ET Sydney (dpa) - Australia could ask the United States to equip it with a missile defence system to ward off attacks from international terrorist groups and from rogue states like Iraq and North Korea. Defence Minister Robert Hill said Wednesday that tapping into the proposed global missile shield could help protect Australia or its forces in combat. Hill said the so-called Star Wars defence system could destroy missiles at lift-off or at atmospheric re-entry. He said it is a massive program and too expensive for Australia to replicate but some elements might be useful. ;I see the need to better be able to protect ships from missiles that are fired at us from far afield or to protect troops on the ground and in that part of the so-called national missile program, there may be an opportunity and a value for Australia,'' he said. |
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