Originally Posted by Broken

Tilt-rotor death trap is a good description. But we are getting a bit off track; the original discussion was the HTK Interceptor ABM program. This boon-doogle costs us $10 billion a year. It is a program put into production without passing any realistic proof of concept tests.

The money would be much more reasonably spent on boost-phase ABM. If you don't like that idea, the $10 billion could be used to fund the F-22 Raptor, which may get it's 380 aircraft purchase order cut in half, due to a lack of $10 billion.