The Missile Defense Agency is getting closer to naming a site for a European wing of ground-based interceptor missiles, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, head of the Missile Defense Agency, at a conference in Huntsville, Ala., Tuesday. Likely candidates are Britain, the Czech Republic, or Poland. Obering told Reuters news service that the US would install 10 interceptors in Europe by 2011.
Every year, Congress and the military debate which combat assets should head to the boneyard and which have more life left in them. Lawmakers often opt to keep Air Force systems that bring jobs to their districts, which complicates matters as the service looks to modernize and ditch certain platforms.…