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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060620/us_nm/arms_usa_missile_dc_2

The Aegis cruisers carrying the new SM-3 are also in the area.

Would be good to see if it works against a real target.

How funny would it be to see the N. Koreans celebrating the successful launch of their new missile and suddenly get the news that it's been shot down?

50 bucks says we end up shooting down an airliner...again.

50 bucks says we end up shooting down an airliner...again.
Something tells me that airliners don't fly at over 130,000 feet altitude at between Mach 8 and Mach 25.

50 bucks says we end up shooting down an airliner...again.
the fact is, theres too many airliners

Something tells me that airliners don't fly at over 130,000 feet altitude at between Mach 8 and Mach 25.
can the radar only track that?

50 bucks says we end up shooting down an airliner...again.
As long as there are no Americans on it who gives a crap?

Something tells me that airliners don't fly at over 130,000 feet altitude at between Mach 8 and Mach 25.

You just haven't seen the super secret Government airliners...they're l33t.

Data on the SM-3, which is for exoatmospheric intercepts, and is fired from the updated Aegis cruiser.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm

can the radar only track that?
I'd bet on it.

As long as there are no Americans on it who gives a crap?

It might prove a wee bit embarrassing when we shoot down an A330 full of Canadians.

It might prove a wee bit embarrassing when we shoot down a A330 full of Canadians.
True. They're almost American. Let's hope it's a Chinese airline instead.

can the radar only track that?
It's not just a matter of the radar on the ship. The software on the SM-3 missile is made for exoatmospheric intercepts.

So it's not going to home in on anything that's in the atmosphere. Airliners are commonly found in the atmosphere, not in space. (well, except for the Scientologists)

True. They're almost American. Let's hope it's a Chinese airline instead.
The best would be a North Korean airliners, if they have that, which they prbly dont

The best would be a North Korean airliners, if they have that, which they prbly dont
If they let people travel to places that have stuff like heating fuel and food they'd have a hell of a time getting them back.

The best would be a North Korean airliners, if they have that, which they prbly dont

I don't think the DPRK even has an airline.

If they let people travel to places that have stuff like heating fuel and food they'd have a hell of a time getting them back.

Counterrevolutionary drivel, this is.

The DPRK is a place of plenty, with rolling meadows full of flowers and dancing children.

Unlike the Ground Based Interceptor which is plagued with problems, the SM-3 works extremely well against targets in an operational environment.

Aegis BMD testbed initiated a series of increasingly complex missions to evaluate SM-3 design capability while the program prepares for potential emergency tactical availability. The first mission of this test series, Flight Mission Four (FM-4), was flown on 21 November 2002 resulting in a third successful intercept for the program. This mission demonstrated the ship’s crew and system response times necessary to track, engage, and intercept a ballistic missile target early in flight during its ascent phase (prior to apogee). FM-4 also provided a key verification of SM-3’s capability to accurately hit the target at a predefined point for lethality which, for this test, was forward of the target center. The KW impacted within centimeters of the aimpoint, completely destroying the target avionics section.

In FY03, two intercept attempts of a unitary target in its ascent phase were conducted. In the first test, the Aegis BMD element successfully intercepted the target. Using a newly designed divert system onboard the SM-3 missile, the Aegis BMD failed to intercept the target in the second FY03 test. The cause of the failed intercept has been attributed to a malfunction in a divert valve in the attitude control system onboard the kinetic warhead. Testing continued based on the consistent performance of the sustained pulse mode, while mitigation options were evaluated.

In FY03, the operational robustness of the Aegis BMD Block 2004 test program was enhanced by increased operational realism in the test strategy. Efforts to add operational realism as part of the developmental test strategy provide significant risk reduction in advance of operational testing and potential deployment of the element. The planned growth in flight test realism is consistent with the maturity of the system. Although the Block 2004 flight test plan include many operationally realistic aspects, some important operational scenarios remain untested by the end of the Block 2004 test program. These include multiple simultaneous engagements and separating targets. Development and integration of critical technologies pertaining to threat discrimination (e.g., AWS discrimination logic, radar and infrared seeker upgrades) and missile propulsion (e.g., kinetic warhead divert system, SM-3 booster propulsion) could improve operational capability as they are introduced in Block 2004 and subsequent upgrades.

Raytheon's next hit-to-kill success with the sea-based STANDARD Missile-3 occurred on 11 December 2003. Between January 2002 and late 2004, the Aegis BMD system had successfully intercepted targets in space four times with SM-3. In all the flight tests, the SM-3 was launched from a US Navy cruiser under increasingly realistic, operational conditions.

On 24 February 2005 the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) destroyed a ballistic missile outside the earth's atmosphere during an Aegis BMD Program flight test over the Pacific Ocean. The Feb. 24 mission -- the fifth successful intercept for SM-3 -- was the first firing of the Aegis BMD "Emergency Deployment" capability using operational versions of the SM-3 Block I missile and Aegis BMD Weapon System. This was also the first test to exercise SM-3's third stage rocket motor (TSRM) single-pulse mode. The TSRM has two pulses, which can be ignited independently, providing expansion of the ballistic missile engagement battlespace. The SM-3 was launched from the Aegis BMD cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) and hit a target missile that had been launched from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.

The PAC-3 which is also based on the ground in South Korea has been operational for several years, and had several successful live intercepts of Iraqi missile launches in the most recent invasion of Iraq, including automated ripple fire against multiple targets without human intervention.

Counterrevolutionary drivel, this is.

The DPRK is a place of plenty, with rolling meadows full of flowers and dancing children.
and all-prevasive police forces, and our Glorious Leader!!

and all-prevasive police forces, and our Glorious Leader!!

Hail Juche and our Glorious Leader!

*hums Aegukka (http://www.big.or.jp/~jrldr/m/1na1.mp3)*

Hail Kim-Il Sung! Great Eternal President!

Let morning shine on the silver and gold of this land,
Three thousand leagues packed with natural wealth.
My beautiful fatherland.
The glory of a wise people
Brought up in a culture brilliant
With a history five millennia long.
Let us devote our bodies and minds
To supporting this Korea forever.

The firm will, bonded with truth,
Nest for the spirit of labour,
Embracing the atmosphere of Mount Paektu,
Will go forth to all the world.
The country established by the will of the people,
Breasting the raging waves with soaring strength.
Let us glorify forever this Korea,
Limitlessly rich and strong.

Here's a link to a photo essay of a trip to North Korea.


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

Well worth looking at.

Here's a link to a photo essay of a trip to North Korea.


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

Well worth looking at.
that's the kind of anti-revolucionary propaganda thats preventing the great nation from reaching its worker's utopia


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I'm just hoping we get some good footage of the missile being intercepted (which we probably won't).

I'm just hoping we get some good footage of the missile being intercepted (which we probably won't).
if the NK hav a good missile, it will be really high up and really fast, dont get your hopes up

if the NK hav a good missile, it will be really high up and really fast, dont get your hopes up


The seeker head of the interceptor transmits what it sees back to the ground.

If the intercept is successful, there will be some really short video to watch.

if the NK hav a good missile, it will be really high up and really fast, dont get your hopes up



Hmmmm since the interceptors were designed and built to track and destroy the best ICBM's in the world from Russia and China...and we have our OWN supior ICBM delivery systems to use as taget practice..I am so SURE that them short skinny starving dudes came up with a real world beater...they should be happy it doesnt go off like a big firecracker over their own capital .