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Eredron Publicly Reveals Bastion II Missile Shield

Eredron
01-05-2004, 17:02
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Following an intelligence briefing five years ago, the Senate voted in a closed-door session to begin research and development for a land or space-based anti-missile defense program, capable of tracking and bringing down up to one hundred incoming conventional or unconventionally armed missiles. The first operational stage of Project Bastion was revealed to Concordia and a limited number of other allied nations, while progress continued on the project, for the second stage dubbed Bastion II.

Using a combination of space and land-based tracking systems, Bastion II iintercepts and destroys incoming missiles while still in the atmosphere. Using over three thousand missile silos and AA/SAM sites linked together by a centralized supercomputer fortress to nearly four hundred satellites and ground radar systems, Bastion II is estimated at possessing a 85% success rate in eliminating all inbound targets.

Bastion utilizes a modified version of the EDI Stryker ICBM, Eredron's primary nuclear missile. Designated the Mark III Interceptor, the missile is shorter and lighter, making it more maneuverable and responsive to in-flight course corrections. The Bastion II will provide protection against a ballistic missile attack for all Eredron and her principalities.

Development of an improved Bastion III will continue with funding of nearly ten billion Marks [~1.89$].
The Zoogie People
01-05-2004, 17:22
Zoogiedom would like to congratulate Eredron on the development of an anti-ballistic missile system...this formidable missile defense platform is one of the best we have ever seen. And better than ours, which haven't been developed. :P
Eredron
01-05-2004, 19:01
Eredron is willing to enter into private negotiations with Zoogiedom for the possible exchange of technology related to and necessary for an ABM program.
Eredron
01-05-2004, 20:51
Check your TGs. 8)
Eredron
16-05-2004, 18:41
Following the increased military spending authorized by the Consul of the Republic, the Military Command Staff announced plans to begin testing a prototype of the next-generation missile shield program, slated to be called Bastion III. The Bastion Project was granted an additional twenty billion Marks per year.

More information as the story develops..
The Zoogie People
17-05-2004, 00:19
OOC: Short on time...

IC:

Zoogiedom pledges $26 billion and full research backing to this uprade of the Bastion II ABM system.