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Science & Technology

Two-on-Two SM-3 Test Successful

2007-11-07

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii, Nov. 6, 2007 /PRNewswire/ - - In a first-of-its-kind dual missile defense test, two Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard Missile-3s, fired from a U.S. Navy ship, simultaneously intercepted and destroyed two short-range ballistic missile targets in space, Nov. 6.

This was the first time a Navy ship demonstrated simultaneous engagements against ballistic missile targets outside the earth's atmosphere. These were the 10th and 11th successful intercepts for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense weapon system's SM-3.

The crew of the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) fired both SM-3 Block IA intercepting missiles, while personnel at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai launched the ballistic missile targets.
Dems collectively cover ears, sing LALALALALA ...

Posted by:PBMcL

#10 WAFF.com > WORLDPOLITICSREVIEW - THE NEW SPACE ORDER. USA still dominates = very top of the space pyramid but for how much longer?

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-07 22:16

#9 So what? Ahmadinijad says he has 3,000 centrifuges.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-07 20:04

#8 Mmmm, Standard Missile 3. Is there anything it can't do?
/Homer

Posted by: SteveS 2007-11-07 19:46

#7 Hmmm... Philo Farnsworth's first staticy b&w tv and my Samsung HDTV flat panel. Why shouldn't ABM technology be expected to follow a similar (no pun intended) trajectory?

Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-07 14:37

#6 On of these in the right place (even suborbital mechanics are relatively strict) may even be able to can one of the missles during the boots phase.

Posted by: OldSpook 2007-11-07 13:26

#5 Dems collectively cover ears, sing LALALALALA ...

ROLF.. well said PBMcL!

Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-11-07 11:47

#4 Star Wars is a reality. Putie's knickers are in a knot, Iran is trying to bluster that they have so many missiles that we can't shoot them all down, and the Dem's want to cancel the project.

Who is the most dangerous to this nation?

Posted by: DarthVader 2007-11-07 07:46

#3 PRAVDA > USA PLANS TO ENCIRCLE RUSSIA WITH MISSLE SYSTEMS AND RADARS [Czech-Poland now Mongolia?]; + UNITED POLICE STATES OF AMERICA MAD ABOUT STRONG RUSSIA.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-07 04:24

#2 ION, ISRAEL > MOUD announces Iran now has 3000 centrifuges working at enrichment plant. WAFF.com > GULF NEWS > SETTING THE STAGE FOR INEVITABLE WAR [USA-Iran]. Author - Radical Iran [correctly?]believes USA is militarily and economically, etc. exhausted from Iraq, ergo believes USA will not stop = can not stop its nucprogs. IOW, IRAN BELIEVES THE USA CANNOT STOP IT FROM DEV NUKE BOMBS.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-07 04:16

#1 ISRAEL > US SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYS TWO BALLISTIC MISSLES AT SAME TIME. At the SAME TIME, for the FIRST TIME.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-07 04:10

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