[Desron13]

"Only “tens of seconds” will be available each day for a favorable launch of a ship-based SM-3 interceptor missile"

Is there anyone else on this thread that's a little surprised that one of our interceptor missiles is actually capable of shooting down targets in low Earth orbit? I thought I was fairly well versed on our basic military capabilities and knew we could do this from an aircraft at high altitude but a ship launch is really quite impressive.

[SandRat]

It’s been going on for over 4 year’s that I know of that my has been working on it and testing it.