Ships lack adequate cruise missile defense, GAO says

The U.S. Navy has made "some progress" in improving ship self-defense capabilities since a 1996 assessment, but most ships continue to have only limited defenses against cruise missiles, the General Accounting Office said in a report released yesterday. "Unless the Navy can improve the self-defense...

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