Standard Missile-3 Block 1B guided missile launched from the USS Lake Erie. Flickr/U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Dave Majumdar, National Interest: How the U.S. Navy is Trying to Make China's 'Carrier-Killer' Missiles Obsolete
The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully launched a salvo of two Raytheon Standard SM-6 Dual I missiles against a medium-range ballistic missile target earlier this week. USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)—an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer—conducted the test shortly after midnight on Dec. 14 to demonstrate a Sea Based Terminal endo-atmospheric defensive capability.
"This test demonstrated the capabilities MDA and the Navy are delivering to our fleet commanders," Vice Adm. Jim Syring, director of the MDA said in a statement. "The SM-6 missile and the Aegis Weapon System continue to prove that they are critical components of our nation's multilayered, robust ballistic missile defense system."
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Update: US Aegis destroyer demonstrates the ability to shoot down a maneuvering antiship missile like China's DF missiles (Next Big Future)
WNU Editor: I suspect that these improvements are going to get even better with time.
3 comments:
A successful test?
That is the call to Democrats to man the ramparts.
"HALT FUNDING NOW!"
Where is Lurch when you need him?
Or the drunken sexual assaulter from the Senate? Oh he that murderer is dead.
"Rep. Patricia Schroeder and Sen. Ted Kennedy helped to lead the movement in Congress. The Freeze's grassroots network pushed for nuclear reductions through ballot initiatives in towns and cities across the nation."
That literally makes no sense. You sound like a Russian troll who needs to work on his English.
Anon,
I was being sarcastic.
However, it would make perfect sense to any die-hard Democrat, Left-winger, or wingnut.
Democrats have been trying to kill this stuff since Star Wars. Well that is when they were not writing secret letters to the Kremlin like Ted Kennedy.
When have Democrats not called for cutting ballistic missile defense?
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