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Pentagon shoots down mock intercontinental missile in sea-based test
In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit and destroyed a mock ICBM in flight Tuesday, officials said.
Previous tests against ICBM targets had used interceptors launched from underground silos in the U.S. If further, more challenging tests prove successful, the ship-based approach could add to the credibility and reliability of the Pentagon's existing missile-defense system.
The success of Tuesday's test is likely to draw particular interest from North Korea, whose development of ICBMs and nuclear weapons is the main reason the Pentagon has sought to accelerate its building of missile-defense systems over the past decade.
Also at Bloomberg and DefenseNews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @02:05PM (1 child)
no need for that, subs are still better for quick nuke delivery.
Also, this is only useful for someone that have few ICBM, Russia would swarm USA anyway (thanks for the Reagan starwar program, USA already trained URSS/Russia that the best way to avoid having the ICBM neutralized is to swarm and over-saturate any protection system
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @02:10PM
Also, Russia have now ultrasonic missil (almost impossible to stop, probably only laser could do it), more to anti-ship missil, but could be adapt to take nukes too... but of course, a much shorter range than ICBM :)