Japan-US joint Missile Defense Flight Test Successful Using Aegis, SM-3 Missile

A Standard SM-3 missile rises from the Japanese destroyer Myoko to strike a ballistic missile target. (U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY)

Japanese Ship Brings Down Missile Target -- Global Security Newswire

In a joint drill with the U.S. Navy, a Japanese destroyer today brought down a ballistic missile launched from Hawaii, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Sept. 17).

The medium-range target was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai. The JDS Myoko identified and monitored the missile and then stopped its trajectory with a Standard Missile 3 interceptor fired from the vessel's deck. The test missile was intercepted approximately 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean, according to a statement from the two nations' militaries.

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