Ship-Based Anti-Missile Missile Scores First-Ever Kill In Late Phase Of Trajectory

Liberals keep insisting there have been "zero" successful tests of anti-missile technology.

This word "zero" you keep using. I do not think it means what you think it means.

For the first time, a Navy ship at sea successfully shot down a long-range missile in its final seconds of flight, the military said Wednesday. The test was seen as an important step toward giving ships the ability to shoot down weapons as they are about to hit their targets. Until now, the Standard Missile 2 was only launched from ships to intercept a long-range missile in the early or middle stage of flight.

For the test, a missile fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai was destroyed in its final stage by an SM-2 launched from USS Lake Erie.

The Navy already can shoot down a missile in its final stage with a Patriot Advanced Capability 3, or PAC-3, missile launched from land.

But you know, there's no chance we could ever shoot down an Iranian Shahab-3 missile. Because they're magic, and equipped with +3 bracers of ABM protection.

posted by Ace at 10:56 AM

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