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5/10/2012 - Second-Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test The Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) successfully
conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system,
resulting in the first intercept of a short-range ballistic missile target
over the Pacific Ocean by the Navy's newest Missile Defense interceptor, the
Standard Missile -- 3 (SM-3) Block 1B. At 8:18 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time
(2:18 a.m. EDT May 10) the target missile was launched from the Pacific
Missile Range Facility, located on Kauai, Hawaii. The target flew on a
northwesterly trajectory towards a broad ocean area of the Pacific Ocean.
Following target launch, the USS LAKE ERIE detected and tracked the missile
with its onboard AN/SPY-1 radar. The ship, equipped with the second-
generation Aegis BMD 4.0.1 weapon system, developed a fire control solution
and launched the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptor. The USS
LAKE ERIE continued to track the target and sent trajectory information to
the SM-3 Block IB interceptor in-flight. The SM-3 maneuvered to a point in
space, as designated by the fire control solution, and released its kinetic
warhead. The kinetic warhead acquired the target, diverted into its path,
and, using only the force of a direct impact, engaged and destroyed the
threat in a hit-to-kill intercept. Today's event, designated Flight Test
Standard Missile-16 (FTM-16) Event 2a, was the first successful live fire
intercept test of the SM-3 Block IB interceptor and the second-generation
Aegis BMD 4.0.1 weapon system. Produced by Ben Listerman. |
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