Originally posted by longjohn
I'll give you a challenge:
I say the items you give are b*ll#.
List two other (reliable = internationally known) news sources which also mention this and I will offer my excuses on the list.

Aha, say what you want there are more than enough sources to prove you wrong. Hell you couldn't even get the right missile and instead started talking about completely different models
You my friend are full of it, admit that and save some face. Quite frankly people like you still think the earth is flat as well, we know it isn't though, don't we

• However, the MA-31 was only an interim solution, because the drone lacked the range and flight path accuracy to fully satisfy the Navy's SSST (Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target) requirement for the simulation of a high-speed anti-ship missile. During the MA-31 evaluation, Boeing had demonstrated an improved variant (sometimes called MA-31PG; PG = "Precision Guidance") with a GPS-based navigation system and the resulting option for a precise flight path after a high-altitude (and therefore longer range) launch, but in the end this variant was not selected for production as the ultimate SSST. Instead, that contract went to Orbital Sciences in June 2000, leading to the GQM-163 Coyote SSST. As soon as the GQM-163 becomes available (latest plans say 2005), the remaining MA-31 targets will be retired. However, in June 2004 Boeing received an order to deliver 14 additional MA-31s until the end of 2006, and so it appears that the target will remain longer in U.S. Navy service than originally intended.
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• Later in the decade, as an interim solution, the Navy acquired a handful of Russian-built "Kh-31A" ramjet-powered anti-ship missiles, modified to "MA-31" targets by Boeing, as an interim solution. This was ironic, since the Kh-31A was one of the threats the MA-31 was being designed to simulate. The Russians were making money on the deal coming and going.
  
  There was apparently some consideration to putting the MA-31 into full production, but that didn't happen
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Now here's the kicker for the really dense, here's one from Boeing's oficial website - then again they could be lying as well

• ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17, 1999 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded an $18.8 million contract to The Boeing Company for procurement of 34 MA-31 target vehicles.
  
  Concern about anti-ship missiles prompted the U.S. Navy to ask U.S. industry for a system to simulate anti-ship missiles to test its defenses. To maximize realism and minimize development and production costs, the Boeing Phantom Works proposed the MA-31 Target System in a concept exploration and definition study and subsequently in a highly successful foreign comparative test.
  
  "We wanted to provide the most realistic target possible at the lowest possible cost," said John Reilly, MA-31 program manager. "And that's just what we've done."
  
  www.boeing.com...
  
  Oh and guess what the below image is from Boeing's website.
  
  

In 1995, the U.S. Navy acquired the Kh-31 from Russia as part of an arms deal cut behind closed doors by Vice President Gore and Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin. On first blush this sounds like a great idea. We provide cash to the bankrupt Russian defense industry and in return we acquire advanced weapons.

However, Gore was suckered by Moscow. The Krypton deal did not include the real guts of the missile, its electronic seeker. According to one Russian defense source, the Kryptons supplied to America were little more than "hollow target shells." In 1995, the U.S. Navy also determined that the Russian Krypton missiles did not include the all-important radar "seeker" and guidance electronics from the weapon version.

"Removal of the seeker will preclude use of the MA-31 (Krypton) for testing the effectiveness of soft-kill EW (electronic warfare) systems and decoys," states a 1995 Navy report. At this point, U.S. engineers provided direct assistance to Russian weapons engineers in order to make the Krypton work. The OK came from the highest levels in the Clinton administration and included U.S.-funded trips to American test sites by Russian missile engineers.

newsmax.com...

Kh-31 variant MA-31 was declared the winner of the competition, in which four Kh-31 missiles were test-fired at the Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California. The Russian missile's victory led to some criticism of the deal on the grounds that the US government was subsidizing the Russian defense industry. Additional complications were caused by the US desire to extend the range of the missile, which required additional development work .[9] In spite of these complications, the first batch of four missiles that was used up in the testing was followed by a second batch of nine, and Boeing wanted to sign a third, longer-term contract to procure MA-31s in October 1998. Under that contract Boeing would purchase 20-50 missiles a year for five years. Final conversion work, which included installing telemetry and other specialized apparatus, would be done at the Boeing facility in St. Louis.

www.nti.org...