Pentagon Releases Candidates for 3rd Missile Defense Site

In 2012, Congress demanded the Pentagon come up with recommendations for the location of a third site to base interceptors for the U.S. Ground Based Midcourse (GMD) missile defense system. 

Friday 13th September, the Pentagon announced the locations of five candidate sites for a possible future deployment of additional GMD interceptors. They are:

• Fort Drum, NY
• Camp Ethan Allen Training Site, Vermont
• Naval Air Station Portsmouth SERE Training Area, Maine
• Camp Ravenna Joint Training Center, Ohio
• Fort Custer Training Center, Michigan

Fort Drum – New York Site Considered As Missile Interceptors

 

The nation’s military leaders are considering two sites in upstate New York — an active Army post and a shuttered Air Force base — and one site in Maine as potential missile interceptor sites on the East Coast.

 

 

The Missile Defense Agency is looking at 10 sites on the East Coast, including Fort Drum in northern New York, the old Griffiss Air Force Base near the central New York city of Rome and the former Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine. The Defense Department has been directed to create an East Coast interceptor site in response to a perceived threat from Iran, which is believed to be developing nuclear weapons. (Read more)