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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Sea-Based Missile Tests: The View From the Pentagon

SM-3The May 18 front-page article “Physicists Say Weapon Failed in Missile Tests” cites misses that were not misses in tests of the sea-based Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, interceptor.

It was based on an academic assessment by physicists who had no access to test data, especially classified telemetry data showing the complete destruction of the targets, or interceptor sensor views that were not released so as not to reveal to potential adversaries exactly where the target was struck.

The article also did not mention that tests involving very small and challenging separating targets — representative of what is now being developed by rogue nations — resulted in five of six successful intercepts.

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