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…
As we wrestle with an ISP that seems to have a different sense of urgency than YHS when it comes to transferring service upon shifting our flag, access to the ‘verse will continue to be, well, spotty, over the next few days. What little we are able to accomplish is via the services of our…
Coming into this off-cycle budget expectations were that an Administration that had shown, for lack of a better term, restrained enthusiasm, towards missile defense on the campaign trail would seek to shut the program down as part of its cost-saving plans. Indeed, with the SECDEF’s announcements on 6 April where some very high profile and…
Sixty-seven years ago… Day 1 – “Scratch One Flattop!”: The first day of the carrier battle of Coral Sea, 7 May 1942, saw the Americans searching for carriers they knew were present and the Japanese looking for ones they feared might be in the area. (more at NHHC) Day 2: We lose USS Lexington: ….
(NAVSTA Rota) 30 April 2009 – an EA-3B Skywarrior is loaded aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1) for transport back to the U.S. This marks the first time in over twenty-years a Whale is chocked and chained to the flightdeck of a USN warship. How it got to that point is an extraordinary story of one…
Continuing the missile defense theme from the stand-up of the NAMDC, offered here is a new trailer for the Heritage Foundation film on the need for missile defense:
