Succesful AEGIS BMD Launch
Here is video of the shoot itself:
Here is video of the shoot itself:
Another average week…the Iranians started it off by claiming to have launched their SLV, but then, no, wait, it was just a sounding rocket (some think it was nothing more than a Scud B shot straight up which would have yielded the 150 km altitude claimed). Fallout from China’s ASAT test continued in the wake…
The phrase "assassin’s mace" is the English translation of "shashou jiang," a term of ancient Chinese strategy. "Shashou jiang" was a club with which the "assassin" incapacitated his enemy, suddenly and totally, instead of fighting him according to "the rules." To summarize from Part I – a Chinese strike using Theater BM’s has been conducted…
On Thursday, 30 April 2009, the Navy’s newest Center of Excellence (COE), the Navy Air and Missile Defense Center, was opened for business onboard the Naval Weapons Development Center, Dahlgren Virginia. RADM Brad Hicks, who is also the Aegis BMD program director, will serve as the Center’s first commander until a permanent flag is assigned…
As early as November 2002, the Navy demonstrated an ascent-phase intercept capability using an SM-3 launched from USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to intercept a SCUD-like target vehicle launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, as MDA test FM-4, codenamed Stellar Viper. The test objectives and knowledge points gained were set forth in the contemporary…
Got Pyrolytic graphite for your jet vanes? No? Umm, too bad… (fast forward to 2:33, 3:01 and 3:10): ——- ——- (Detailed analysis over at ArmsControlWonk) Incidentally, pyrolytic graphite is a Category II controlled item under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) which, unfortunately, does not include two of the greatest missile technology proliferators of record,…
If news reports coming from South Korea and echoed through the West are to be believed, North Korea is moving towards another attempt at launching a Taepo Dong – 2 IR/ICBM, ostensibly as a space launch vehicle (SLV). This would be the third such attempt, with previous attempts in July 2006 and Sept 1998 ending…