Latest U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile Intercept Test Fails Off The Coast Of Hawaii

A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA is launched in February from the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones during a flight test off Hawaii resulting in the first intercept of a ballistic missile target by the Block IIA, which is being developed jointly by the US and Japan

Defense News: US Navy ballistic missile intercept test fails

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy conducted a failed ballistic missile intercept Wednesday with its SM-3 Block IIA off the coast of Hawaii.

The destroyer John Paul Jones, running the Navy’s top-of-the-line Aegis Baseline 9.C2 combat system, failed to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii.

The destroyer detected

and tracked the target on the AN/SPY-1 phased array radar but was unable to intercept it. It was the second test of this latest iteration of the SM-3. The John Paul Jones successfully shot down a target in February with it. That test was the first intercept using Baseline 9.2C.

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