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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @04:46PM
I concur.
The "liberal" side of the elite's One Party (the D team) is champing at the bit for World War 3. They are doing everything they can to cause World War 3 with BRICS. The "conservative" side of the elite's One Party (the R team) has the role here of normalizing nuclear warfare with the upcoming assault on North Korea.
It could be that, perhaps, North Korea, in light of the absolute travesty of human misery, oppression, and just general evil over there, needs some liberatin'. But the elites have had decades to step in and end the horrors. They did not. Now only when they are moving towards World War 3 are they interested in some liberatin'. Perhaps, also, they're interested in liberatin' now because of how it will ruffle China and Russia's feathers. Yet another provocation for World War 3, nothing more. The elites don't give a shit about the human fucking beings who have the grave misfortune of being born in the one country on Earth most like hell.
tl;dr just push the damn button already. Let's get World War 3 fucking started. I want to see some fucking mushroom clouds. I want to see this horrible species wipe itself off the fucking planet.
I'm not worried about the Earth. Men go and come, but Earth abides. The Planetary Goddess was around perhaps 500,000,000 to over a billion or even 2 or 3 billion years before humans, and She will be better off for the departure of humans, so that She might set to work giving the evolution of life capable of high technology another shot.