Curvature Of The Earth Failure, Geez....

Our missile defense system was doomed to fail from its inception because the designers didn't take into account the curvature of the earth and the radar system sits idle at Pearl Harbor, as blind as a bat:
http://rt.com/usa/246973-defense-usa-billions-wasted/

That curvature claim has to be BS by the LAT or whomever they talked to. It's a ridiculously stupid claim by a writer who must not know anything. That would be like a sportswriter saying that the Dodgers lost because they didn't know where home plate is. Why do you think we have spent so much $ on satellites to detect launch phase ICBMs? It's curvature of the earth. Any MDA graphic diagram for 50 years shows that they understand curvature of the earth as a factor in early detection of ICBMs.

The author of this article appears to have collected a bunch of dots but connected them together all wrong.

SBX is a high-resolution/narrow-field X-band radar designed to discriminate between warheads and decoy warheads (not 'actual missiles' and 'decoy rockets' as the article states) and provide targeting data to interceptor missiles based at Fort Greely Alaska and Vandenberg AFB in California. This is done after missile launches have been detected by IR surveillance satellites and tracked by lower-resolution/wider-field S-band radars that cannot discriminate between decoys and real warheads.

In an attack by a rogue nation (you can probably guess who) which is the scenario our missile defenses are designed for; all incoming warheads would be well within the 25-degree field of the SBX radar. The whole purpose of making SBX sea-mobile is to allow moving it to locations to optimize line-of-site coverage on an ellipsoidal earth.