{"id":74331,"date":"2017-08-30T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74331"},"modified":"2017-08-30T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:03:10","slug":"us-conducts-successful-aegis-ballistic-missile-defense-bmd-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74331","title":{"rendered":"US Conducts Successful Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFox News <\/a> is reporting that the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced today that a ballistic missile was successfully shot down over the Pacific Ocean in a new test of its at-sea missile defense system, installed on USS John Paul Jones, DDG-53. <\/p>\n

The test vessel fired an SM-6 interceptor missile to shoot down the target, and comes after a previous test last June, that failed.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working closely with the fleet to develop this important new capability, and this was a key milestone in giving our Aegis BMD ships an enhanced capability to defeat ballistic missiles in their terminal phase,\u201d MDA Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves said in a statement. \u201cWe will continue developing ballistic missile defense technologies to stay ahead of the threat as it evolves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The target missile was launched from Kauai, was detected and tracked with Jones\u2019 AN\/SPY-1 Aegis radar, and was successfully engaged with on-board SM-6 missiles. <\/p>\n

This test follows North Korea\u2019s Tuesday ballistic missile test. That missile was fired from North Korea\u2019s capital Pyongyang, overflew the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and terminated in the Pacific Ocean. The missile flew around 1677 miles and reached an altitude of 341 miles. The overflight of a close US ally resulted in President Trump\u2019s written statement repeating that all US options are being considered, and called for a UN Security Council meeting.<\/p>\n

“Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world,” Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps next time NDtBF will be kind enough to provide the test target in a real-world Capabilities Test of the system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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