Navy tests sea-based missile defense

[Bustem' Down]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/17/missile.defense.ap/index.html

HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- The Navy intercepted and destroyed a warhead as it separated from its booster rocket during a test Thursday off Hawaii -- the first time a ship at sea has shot down a multi-stage missile.

That's cool. It's nice to see what I actually do for a living make the news.

 

[dustin]

Cool stuff. I'm guessing that the target missle came from a boomer. I wonder how far away the target missle was from the Erie? It only says it was 100 miles above the pacific. 100 miles overhead?

And you would think the CNN editors would catch the misspelled title:

First ship to shot down a multi-stage missile

 

[Bustem' Down]

Cool stuff. I'm guessing that the target missle came from a boomer. I wonder how far away the target missle was from the Erie? It only says it was 100 miles above the pacific. 100 miles overhead?

And you would think the CNN editors would catch the misspelled title:

I think they launched it from the island.

 

[Ken King]

I think they launched it from the island.

Probably from the Reagan Test site on Kwajalein Atoll.

 

[Bustem' Down]

Probably from the Reagan Test site on Kwajalein Atoll.

No, the picture said Barking Sands, Hawaii.

 

[Ken King]

No, the picture said Barking Sands, Hawaii.

Okay, I didn't click through the pictures.