Aegis BMD Passes Key Test; Multiple Launches At Multiple Targets Next

Aegis BMD Passes Key Test; Multiple Launches At Multiple Targets Next
Aegis BMD Passes Key Test; Multiple Launches At Multiple Targets Next

At 1:30 am this morning – 7:30 pm yesterday Hawaiian time — the Navy’s newest missile defense system marked its second successful shootdown in a month. Under what Lockheed Martin called an “operationally realistic scenario” – more on that in a moment – the USS Lake Erie picked up the target with its Aegis Ballistic Missile…

Missile Defense: SM-3 Interceptor Makes A High-Altitude Hat Trick

Missile Defense: SM-3 Interceptor Makes A High-Altitude Hat Trick
Missile Defense: SM-3 Interceptor Makes A High-Altitude Hat Trick

After failing its first test back in 2011, the Raytheon-built SM-3 Block IB missile looks like it’s back on track, with yesterday marking the third successful test in a row, each against increasingly difficult targets launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai island in Hawaii. The SM-3 IB is the latest iteration of…