June 23, 2006

Live Fire Exercise-Part II, or "Good Shootin', Tex"

The Navy conducted a successful intercept of a ballistic missile using a SM-III fired from USS Shiloh. Memo to The Dear Leader: go ahead, pop off that rocket, you know you want to . . .

An interesting aside, here is the homepage of Shiloh, the 21st ship of the Ticonderoga class and a fine example of Reagan-era defense spending.

Posted by LMC at June 23, 2006 02:08 PM | TrackBack
Comments

This news makes me feel slightly better about using the intercept option if and when the Norks actually fire off their missile. A successful intercept would be considerably more effective than sending Pyongyang a strongly worded memorandum of concern, but a failed intercept would be just about the worst of all possible worlds.

Posted by: utron at June 23, 2006 03:51 PM

Aegis' motto: "Shield of the Fleet".

Posted by: KMR at June 24, 2006 09:44 AM