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Demonstrating again that anti-missile missiles work best under carefully controlled circumstances, a test of such a weapon fired from Hawaii has missed its target.
The US$30 million test was fired from the Kauai Aegis Ashore site in Hawaii. It was supposed to see a SM-3 Block IIA anti-missile missile intercept a target representing an incoming missile that was launched from an aircraft.
The US Pacific Command, contacted by CNN, confirmed that a test took place but not the outcome, saying only that the test took place on Wednesday morning.
The Raytheon SM-3 Block IIA is a joint US-Japan development built to provide a defence against medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Defense News noted that without further information from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) it's impossible to know whether the problem was in the interceptor, the targeting radar, or the Raytheon-developed Aegis weapons system used by the US Navy was at fault.
Additional Coverage at DefenseNews and USNI News.
The Raytheon SM-3 Block IIA Interceptor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @04:46PM
Nuclear is not an attack weapon? Punishment ala Japan, yes. Last stand ala Yisrael, yes. Taking down a former superpower... no.
if Russia wanted to exterminate usa's civilians, there is no need to use nukes or invade. Maybe larger concentrations of firepower like carrier groups would be reasonable to nuke eventually... But actual CONUS will never come under nuclear fire, the N-DAY will never happen.
But there is still hope! :D
They would use one of the hundreds of biological warfare contingency plans, that were created in Soviet times. The biological weaponry arsenal they had developed then was... glorious. And they never stopped researching.
This is of course all pure speculation, since i do not have access to this kind of data that is recent.