DoD says Pacific missile test successful

[GCoyote]

Just a press release with very little detail.

The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 19:50:11 EST

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii — The Defense Department’s Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy say they successfully destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean in a test of a defense system that uses satellites to detect and track threats.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/0...essful-021313/

Another report -

U.S. Missile Defense Agency completes successful test off Kauai

Feb 13, 2013, 2:13pm HST

The U.S Missile Defense Agency and the Pearl Harbor-based USS Lake Erie successfully shot down a target during a flight test of Lockheed Martin’s second-generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System early Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/n...completes.html

[T. A. Gardner]

Just a question: Has the UN and North Korea condemned us for this?...

[lcm1]

Originally Posted by GCoyote

Just a press release with very little detail.

The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 19:50:11 EST


http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/0...essful-021313/

Another report -

U.S. Missile Defense Agency completes successful test off Kauai

Feb 13, 2013, 2:13pm HST



http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/n...completes.html

DoD used to mean 'Dress of the day' in my time! lcm1

[PitchRate]

Originally Posted by lcm1

DoD used to mean 'Dress of the day' in my time! lcm1

Interesting. Ours was UOD, "Uniform of the day". We never wore dresses.

[lcm1]

Originally Posted by PitchRate

Interesting. Ours was UOD, "Uniform of the day". We never wore dresses.

Oh,you should have done,I remember our Sergeant had a very pretty one in pink,absolutely covered in sequins and that big map pocket was very handy,it saved carrying a handbag all the time! lcm1

[GCoyote]

Follow up story.

Baker Spring February 20, 2013 at 2:30 pm

The unanswered question is whether the Missile Defense Agency will be permitted to advance this space-based missile defense capability—whether through the STSS program or the PTSS program—to a deployed constellation at all. There should be little doubt that arms control advocates, both inside the Administration and out, are livid that this test took place at all, let alone that it was successful. This is because a space-based missile defense capability is incompatible with the Administration’s arms control agenda.