We live in an age marked by dwindling numbers of real pioneers and visionaries. Today we just lost another and we are all a bit poorer for it. – SJS From DoD News: Retired Navy Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, regarded as the father of the Navy’s AEGIS Weapons System, passed away today. “I am…
19 may 2007 – One day after the future Wayne E. Meyer keel was laid: Earlier this week – The Navy’s newest Aegis-destroyer heads to sea for super trials. USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) – the “Father of Aegis” (h/t maizenblue)
At the end of a very long day/night for YHS (that has stretched into the bright new dawn…): American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2008 – A network of land-, air-, sea- and spaced-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits…
UPDATE: 20 Feb (21 Feb UTC) MARK INDIA – all indications intercept successful. More to follow… In the 24 hours since the press conference announcing the decision to use a special modification of the Aegis BMD/SM-3 system to mitigate risk from the failed NRO satellite, reaction across the ‘verse (net) has been, well, predictable: “It’s…
This is an Aegis Destroyer: This is an Aegis Cruiser: This is an SM-3, launched from an Aegis Cruiser or Destroyer: This is a Delta, used to launch satellites. From land. Not ships. Class over, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
JDS Kongo arrives in Pearl Harbor for JFTM-01 Deterrence. Deterring aggression must be viewed in global, regional, and transnational terms via conventional, unconventional, and nuclear means. Effective Theater Security Cooperation activities are a form of extended deterrence, creating security and removing conditions for conflict. Maritime ballistic missile defense will enhance deterrence by…
A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser, USS Lake Erie (CG 70) on November 6, 2007 enroute to an intercept as part of a Missile Defense Agency test of the Sea-based capability under development, yet tactically certified and deployed with the U.S. Navy. This was a multiple simultaneous engagement involving…
An SM-3 launched from the USS DECATUR (DDG 73) successfully intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target with a separating warhead* late yesterday in a test off Hawaii. Participating in the test were the USS PORT ROYAL and for the first time, a NATO partner, Spain, with the Aegis-equipped frigate Mendez Nunez (F-104). This was…
Catching up from last week – Thursday another test of the AEGIS BMD system was successfully completed with the conclusion of FTM-11 off Hawaii. A test of the AEGIS BMD 3.6, it was a simultaneous shot against a representative SRBM target with a SM-3 Blk 1a with a simultaneous shot against a cruise missile threat…
The first Navy Aegis ship to be sent to Davey Jones’ locker now rests on the bottom of the Pacific, done in by a combination of missiles and gunfire. The decommissioned cruiser Valley Forge was sunk as part of a Nov. 2 target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii, according to the U.S….
