Jun 22 9:24 PM US/Eastern

Successful missile intercept reported in US sea-based defense test

A US warship successfully shot down a target missile warhead over the Pacific in a test of a sea-based missile defense system, the US military said.

A Japanese destroyer performed surveillance and tracking exercises during the test, marking the first time any US ally has taken part in a US missile defense intercept test, the US Missile Defense Agency said.
"The missile successfully intercepted the target warhead outside the earths atmosphere more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean and 250 miles northwest of Kauai," the agency said in a statement.

"We are continuing to see great success with the very challenging technology of hit-to-kill, a technology that is used for all of our missile defense ground- and sea-based interceptor missiles," Lieutenant General Trey Obering, the agency chief, said in the statement.

The SM-3 Block IA interceptor missile fired in Thursday's test is slated for deployment in the US Navy and had never been used before in an intercept test.


Malgrado queste tecnologie possono assicurare solo
una protezione a corto raggio, rispetto alle
chiacchiere del Nord corea...........

Ma del resto solo dei cretini possono credere che
un paese del terzo mondo, sia dotato "di tecnologie
all'avanguardia"......questi NON HANNO NEMMENO
DA MANGIARE......FIGURATEVI