Standard Missile-3 Block 1B guided missile launched from the USS Lake Erie. Flickr/U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Dave Majumdar, National Interest: How the U.S. Navy is Trying to Make China's 'Carrier-Killer' Missiles Obsolete
The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully launched a salvo of two Raytheon Standard SM-6 Dual I missiles against a medium-range ballistic missile target earlier this week. USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)—an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis
destroyer—conducted the test shortly after midnight on Dec. 14 to demonstrate a Sea Based Terminal endo-atmospheric defensive capability.
"This test demonstrated the capabilities MDA and the Navy are delivering to our fleet commanders," Vice Adm. Jim Syring, director of the MDA said in a statement. "The SM-6 missile and the Aegis Weapon System continue to prove that they are critical components of our nation's multilayered, robust ballistic missile defense system."
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Update: US Aegis destroyer demonstrates the ability to shoot down a maneuvering antiship missile like China's DF missiles (Next Big Future)
WNU Editor: I suspect that these improvements are going to get even better with time.
"This test demonstrated the capabilities MDA and the Navy are delivering to our fleet commanders," Vice Adm. Jim Syring, director of the MDA said in a statement. "The SM-6 missile and the Aegis Weapon System continue to prove that they are critical components of our nation's multilayered, robust ballistic missile defense system."
Read more ....
Update: US Aegis destroyer demonstrates the ability to shoot down a maneuvering antiship missile like China's DF missiles (Next Big Future)
WNU Editor: I suspect that these improvements are going to get even better with time.
