No, We Can’t: US Military Requests SBX Radar During North Korean Missile Launch, DENIED
One of the immutable criticisms leveled at US missile defense by its skeptics is the lack of “operationally realistic testing.” Until our ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) is perfected with 100% realistic testing, it is foolish to prematurely deploy it, they say.
But when given the extraordinarily rare opportunity to actually use OUR BEST MISSILE DEFENSE RADAR in a situation as operationally realistic as you can imagine, the Obama Administration orders the Sea-Based X-Band radar to stay tied to the dock at Pearl Harbor: