Ya GOTTA love it!
Posted on 07/31/2009 5:52:10 PM PDT by jdfromny
The latest US missile defence test, conducted last night in Hawaii waters, was deemed a success as tensions continue with North Korea over that country's missile programme. A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper. The test, conducted by the Navy and the Department of Defense's Missile Defence Agency, marked the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. With the latest test, there have been 19 successes, including the shooting down of a dead US spy satellite last year.
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Oh, and didn't they tell us it would never work?
I thought that was a spaced based system that would defeat all incoming Soviet missiles simultaneously.
(Thank you for our missile defense, President Ronald Reagan (R).)
Hmmm
Now that you mention it, I believe you’re right. Boy, did I step in it!
But hey, isn’t he proliferating a new weapons system nonetheless?
Believe me. They will one day somehow try to make the sheep feel guilty over this somehow. They always do...
Somehow! Somehow!
(Too many beers)
That kookie Reagan dude thinking you could shoot missiles out of the sky. What an idiot that guy was. No vision what so ever...
Yay Aegis BMD!
A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper.
From NRO:
As recently as 1999, when Congress was considering funding for missile defense, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D., OR) once again invoked the old George Lucas imagery to debunk the idea. “Like the movie, this is a phantom solution — hitting a bullet with a bullet in outer space.”
All I can say is..OUR MILITARY ROCKS!!!!!!!
Agree wholeheartedly-! And LOVE your tagline! Jackson also rocks-! Visit his house in Lexington, VA when you get the chance.
Everytime I read an article like this, it reminds me how blessed I am to have been born here!! I love General Jackson and I’ve visited his birthplace 3x. I’ve always had something akin to a crush on him.:)
Ya GOTTA love it!
AKA the USS Nano-Second... BravoZulu USS Hopper!!!
Yes...she spoke at my college graduation. What a gracious, personable lady she was, full of humor and personality. You can see it in the picture!
You’d think, with N. Korea throwing missiles about, that Hawaiians would start voting Republican, wouldn’t you?
lol
Not when you poll them, and there answer is “Hey, what dis “North Korea”, bruddah?”
pinged ya
IDIOT!
Ping...happy to be of service.
was she still handing out nenoseconds or did she finally run out? a buddy of mine still has one from one of her lectures long ago and far away.
Heh, they are famous! I heard they were pieces of wire...
I do think God put her in charge of time up there...and that is somehow a comforting thought!
Thanks for the good news.
Libs scolded Reagan, the “amiable dunce”, that this was
total foolishness. If it does’nt work, how did B.O.
hoodwink Putin into trading it for some cooperation on Iran?
Why would Putin be afraid of Star Wars if it is just a boondoggle as LibDems have told us?
yup... all about 11.?" long. they were having a timing problem at the time and she saw that the wires were all different lengths so she ask one of the engineers what was the speed of light in miles per hour, then in feet then in seconds, then in nano-seconds and it turns out it's about 11" long.
she said cut ALL the wires at 11x" long and BINGO!!! timing issued GONE!
He cancelled the European Midcourse Radar, or EMR, program, not Aegis and the SM-3 which were used in this test.
Wow! That is real brain-power at work. Great story!
awesome! thank you!
Date posted: 07/30/2009*
Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Achieves 15th Hit-to-kill Intercept in Space
File Photo
A Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 destroyed a short-range ballistic missile target in space July 30. The test marked the 15th successful hit-to-kill intercept for SM-3 and the 19th overall successful missile intercept of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program.
“SM-3 is a mature and proven solution for defeating threat ballistic missiles,” said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. “This intercept proved once again that SM-3 is the right choice for protecting the U.S. and its allies against the growing ballistic missile threat.”
The target ballistic missile was launched from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range on Kauai, Hawaii, while the crew of the guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) fired the SM-3.
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