A Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) is launched from the USS Hopper the latest Missile Defence Agency test
The latest US missile defence test, conducted last night in Hawaii waters, was deemed a success as tensions continue with North Korea over that country’s missile programme.A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper.
The test, conducted by the Navy and the Department of Defense’s Missile Defence Agency, marked the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system.
With the latest test, there have been 19 successes, including the shooting down of a dead US spy satellite last year.
Remember when the Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senators John Kerry, Joe Biden (now the Vice President) and Ted Kennedy wanted to kill the missile defense program – as unworkable?
DEADLY wrong, now weren’t they?
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