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Fox News: "US test to shoot down ballistic missile fails"
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:04 pm
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Amid the threat of North Korea possibly launching a missile, the latest U.S. effort to test its shoot-down capability failed on Wednesday night, according to a statement from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
A medium-range ballistic missile was launched from a test range in Hawaii at 7:20 pm local time, but the interceptor missile fired at sea from USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer, missed the target.
“A planned intercept was not achieved,” the statement said.
A U.S. defense official told Fox News both the ballistic missile and the SM-3 interceptor missile fired from the American warship landed in the ocean, but neither were recovered after both missiles broke up when impacting the water.
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Why would the US advertise this weakness. Could they be trolling?
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Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:08 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Sounds like they only shot one... in a real world scenario, they're sending up a hell of a lot more than one
Sounds like they're trying to reach 100% capability, so by firing just 1 at a time they can work on that
I wouldn't be worried
Sounds like they're trying to reach 100% capability, so by firing just 1 at a time they can work on that
I wouldn't be worried
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:23 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Shooting down a ballistic missile is hard. It's not a bluff.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:25 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Get Maverick in the air ASAP.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:25 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Let's broadcast our failure to intercept a ballistic missile to the world
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:28 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
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but the interceptor missile fired at sea from USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer, missed the target.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:29 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:32 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
Interceptor systems have an exceedingly low kill rate. And it's much easier for them to spoof our interceptor, than it is for us to overwhelm their barrage with missiles.
The math will never favor us.
The math will never favor us.
This post was edited on 6/22/17 at 3:41 pm
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