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US Department of Defense specialized agency has recently reported about reprogramming of development flight tests of Ground Base Interceptor (GBI). Thus, in point of fact the agency has officially declared invalidity of US National Ballistic Missile Defense Program, based on antimissile missile deployment. And there are no surprise solid politicians in US State Department and realistic persons in our Canadian financial circles decided to give up for project financing after abortive flight testing of GBI combat version. We were witnesses of test failures in December of last year and in February of this year. Such facts have called in question exploitability of the whole program. But there is more to come. The matter is that some interested persons in Washington plan to solve their problems in this sphere for EU account. You see, offering their services for construction of European system of missile defense Yankees hope to kill two birds with one stone, as usual. First, they are to support home producers of their BMD elements for the account of European funds. Secondly, Americans plan to trade off produced but worthless GBI models. Speaking about their "worth", suffice it to say that during last GBI launches the arming was required for more than 16 minutes but missiles didn't even come to their bird roosts…