US testing mid-course phase missile defense
Scout.com:
These interceptors are likely designed to take out not only Iranian missiles but the new larger Russian missiles. I suspect that they will also deal with the decoy issues before they separate.
The Missile Defense Agency and Raytheon will soon fire a new SM-3 missile variant into space to destroy an approaching enemy missile target - as a way to develop a new interceptor better able to detect and destroy ballistic missile threats approaching the earth’s atmosphere from space.There is more.
The new missile, called the SM-3IIA, is slated to fire from a land-based missile defense site planned by the Pentagon for Poland by 2018, a Missile Defense Agency spokesman, told Scout Warrior in a statement.
SM-3 missiles, first deployed on Navy ships, are exo-atmospheric interceptor missiles designed to destroy short and intermediate range incoming enemy ballistic missiles in above the earth’s atmosphere. With the weapon, threats are destroyed in space during what’s described as the mid-course phase of flight.
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These interceptors are likely designed to take out not only Iranian missiles but the new larger Russian missiles. I suspect that they will also deal with the decoy issues before they separate.
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