A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA is launched in February from the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones during a flight test off Hawaii resulting in the first intercept of a ballistic missile target by the Block IIA, which is being developed jointly by the US and Japan
Defense News: US Navy ballistic missile intercept test fails
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy conducted a failed ballistic missile intercept Wednesday with its SM-3 Block IIA off the coast of Hawaii.
The destroyer John Paul Jones, running the Navy’s top-of-the-line Aegis Baseline 9.C2 combat system, failed to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii.
The destroyer detected and tracked the target on the AN/SPY-1 phased array radar but was unable to intercept it. It was the second test of this latest iteration of the SM-3. The John Paul Jones successfully shot down a target in February with it. That test was the first intercept using Baseline 9.2C.
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2 comments:
The task is not an easy one. They've done pretty well so far. With the hyper velocity missiles on the horizon, things get much more challenging. What blew my mind was looking at the SR-71. That things top speed is greater than the muzzle velocity of most rifle cartridges. Even if you shot at it from behind with something with a higher velocity, it would quickly slow down compared to the constant speed of the plane. The hyper velocity missiles are traveling at speeds twice that of the SR-71. Plotting an intercept is not easy. Combine that with missile that can make minor course alterations to make intercept harder. Nearly impossible. But then offense has always had the advantage to defense. i.e. French static defenses during WWII, cyber security, etc.
So in recent realistic tests they are 1 for 2.
That 50% puts rogues in a real quandary. They maybe okay with martyrdom but only if they take people with them.
I am sure 'Altertnet boy' will laugh his Ossoff.
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