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:

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Implementing the Maritime Strategy – Japan/U.S. Missile Defense Flight Test Successful
BySteeljawscribe 17 December 200719 October 2009

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…

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US Carries Out Successful Missile Defense Test
BySteeljawscribe 28 September 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. interceptor missile on Friday shot down a dummy warhead replicating an incoming North Korean missile in the 7th successful test of Boeing Co’s long-range missile shield, a witness told Reuters. "We got it," said Riki Ellison, president of the private Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. "It was a success." A…

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Commander: “IRGC Mass-Producing Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles”
BySteeljawscribe 7 February 2011

What they want you to think: “The IRGC’s smart ballistic missiles are now in mass-production and this type of missiles can hit and destroy targets with high-precision,” Jafari told reporters in a news conference here in Tehran on Monday. “These new missiles enjoys supersonic speed and cannot be tracked or intercepted by enemy,” the commander…

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Perspectives on Aegis BMD and Shooting Down a Failed Satellite
BySteeljawscribe 21 February 200821 February 2008

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…

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Aegis BMD: “Build a Little, Test a Little, Learn a Lot”
BySteeljawscribe 16 March 201016 March 2010

Rear Admiral Meyer’s philosophy of “Build a Little, Test a Little, Learn a Lot” drove the testing and milestones of the Aegis system. Having witnessed problems with existing missile systems related to a lack of testing, tests that incorporated too many objectives, and failed system integration efforts requiring massive “get well” programs, he drove the…

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Speaking of Ascent Phase Intercept…
BySteeljawscribe 14 May 2009

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.Â The test objectives and knowledge points gained were set forth in the contemporary…

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