The Pentagon’s New Poland-Based Missile Defense System Is Now Four Years Behind Schedule
- Prediction of two-year delay doubled by Missile Defense Agency
- Agency weighs whether to terminate John Woods Group contract
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The Pentagon’s new ground-based missile defense system being built in Poland is now running as much as four years behind schedule, delaying a project intended to intercept potential attacks on Europe by Iran, according to officials.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency was estimating a two-year delay as recently as November for the Aegis Ashore system to be located at a military base in northern Poland, near the Baltic coast.