Succesful AEGIS BMD Launch

BySteeljawscribe 30 April 2007

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 (simulated by a BQM) with a SM-2. First video is FNN report from the shooter, USS LAKE ERIE to provide background context:

Here is video of the shoot itself:

Missile Defense

Foreign Ballistic Missiles – Capabilities and Threat Guide
BySteeljawscribe 15 May 2009

We’ve talked about it here before, the threat that is.Â Now comes an openÂ source, current publication you can use for citations and the like: Ballistic missile capabilities continue to increase with the proliferation of missile technology. Over 20 countries have ballistic missile systems and it is likely that missiles will be a threat in…

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Navy Marks Passing of Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer
BySteeljawscribe 1 September 20092 September 2009

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.Â – 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…

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Maritime Strategy | Missile Defense | Navy

Shashou Jiang: Theater Ballistic Missiles vs CSGs-Pt I
BySteeljawscribe 6 January 200730 June 2009

(As promised in this post, 2007 will see this blog cover more of the threats and concerns posed by China, Russia and other countries like Venezuela. Most of the China postings will be collected under the "Assassin’s Mace" or Shashou Jiang identifier. – SJS) The phrase "assassin’s mace" is the English translation of "shashou jiang,"…

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Geopolitics | history lessons | Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons

New START – “YES”
BySteeljawscribe 20 December 2010

On 13 April 2010, the Presidents of the United States and Russia signed the collection of agreements and protocols which aggregated have been popularly called “New START,” following on the heels of the first START treaty, signed by President Bush and Secretary Gorbachev in July 1991, and the Moscow, signed by Presidents George W. Bush…

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Air Warfare | Joint Warfare | Missile Defense

Airborne HTK – Back From the Precipice?
BySteeljawscribe 17 June 2009

April 2015.Â Over a landscape made all the more surreal by the dim light of a waning moon, an F-22 continues its patrol, the sensors embedded in its skin alive, searching.Â Across the night sky digital datalinks reach out, carrying their payload of data – a threat radar to the east – a Navy EA-18G…

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Geopolitics | history lessons | Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons

Iran, Venezuela and MRBMs
BySteeljawscribe 13 December 201013 December 2010

According to some reports from various locations (I’ll begin with Hudson Institute’s as that is where I first read it with a h/t to Xformed for his heads-up) it would appear that back in October, Iran and Venezuela signed an agreement that, among other things, would establish a joint base in Venezuela as well as…

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