Another weapon system the Democrats were wrong about

Strategy Page:

For the sixth time in the last three years, the U.S. Navy successfully tested it’s ABM (anti-ballistic missile) version of its Standard anti-aircraft missile (yes, that’s the official name, the “Standard” missile)....

The current thinking is that two or three Aegis cruisers equipped with Standard 3 missiles could shut down any attempts by North Korea or Iran to use their current ballistic missiles. The Standard 3 does this by spotting and hitting the missiles while they are still rising up into the atmosphere. Systems like Patriot 3 or Arrow hit the missiles while they are coming down. At this point the missile is moving at several times the speed of sound and is actually a harder target to take out. The navy is not saying how many SM-3 missiles it has, but there are apparently at least a few dozen of them in service. Warships equipped with the SM-3 are regularly stationed off Iran and North Korea. The SM-3 is believed particularly suitable to shutting down any attempt by North Korea to use ballistic missiles. For that reason, Japan is buying the SM-3 system for some of its Aegis equipped warships.
The Democrats did not think it would work and thought that it would start an arms race. Wrong again. They would rather send Jimmy Carter to North Korea to cut deals that are worthless than have an effective defense that will force the despots to agree to an effective disarmament.

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