US missile defense breakthrough: Navy ships to destroy enemy ICBMs
By , Kris Osborn
Published March 18, 2019
Warrior Maven
The Pentagon plans a “first-of-its-kind†test of an unprecedented weapons capability to intercept and destroy an enemy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile *ICBM†— from a Navy ship at sea using a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA.
The concept, as articulated by Pentagon officials and cited briefly in this years’ DoD “Missile Defense Review,†would be to use an advanced SM-3 IIA to “underlay†and assist existing Ground-Based Interceptors (GBI), adding new dimensions to the current US missile defense posture.
“We are going to test this,†a senior Pentagon weapons developer told Warrior Maven.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-missile-defense-breakthrough-navy-ships-to-destroy-enemy-icbms
