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U.S. Shares Missile Tracking Tech in the Gulf

January 15, 2010 :: Qatar News Agency :: News

Speaking to reporters at the Middle East Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Conference, Lieutenant General Mike Hostage, commander of US Air Force Central Command, stated that the U.S. would be sharing early-warning missile launch intelligence with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar).

 

In the long run, missile defense would go a long way towards stabilizing the region; former UAE Air Force and Air Defense commander Khalid Abdullah Al Buainain has gone on the record saying: "The GCC needs a national and multinational ballistic missile defence (BMD) to counter long-range proliferating regional ballistic missile threats." (Article)

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