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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

U.S. Navy Independently Validates and Demonstrates Its Missile Defense System

Riki Ellison, Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, MDAA, reports that the United States Navy independently validates its Aegis Ship based missile defense capability. Details of the event follow.

"This past Saturday, off the coast of Hawaii, the United States Navy conducted their own live test of their ballistic missile defense systems with full operating crews of U.S. sailors on the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG -60) and USS Hopper (DDG-70).

The Japanese ship JS CHOKAI (DDG-176), who later this month will be outfitted with defensive SM-3 ballistic missiles observed, tracked and simulated a defensive engagement with the target missiles.

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