Navy Warships Will Destroy Enemy ICBMs
The newest SM-3 variant, Block IIA can take out an ICBM just as the missile finishes its mid-course phase and descends into a terminal phase within the atmosphere.
KRIS OSBORN, WARRIOR MAVEN - CENTER FOR MILITARY MODERNIZATIONMAY 22, 2023
By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military Modernization
(Washington DC) The U.S. Navy’s ship-launched Standard Missile-3 has a distinguished and significant history firing from vertical launch systems on destroyers and cruisers.
But a specific kind of progress in recent years places the weapon in an entirely new paradigm.
SM-3: The ICBM Stopper
The newest SM-3 variant, Block IIA, has shown it can actually play a role in taking down enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles.
It can do so by being thrust just beyond the boundary of the Earth’s atmosphere, where it can take out an ICBM just as the missile finishes its mid-course phase and descends into a terminal phase within the atmosphere.
This is incredibly significant and a historic breakthrough that was first confirmed during a test in 2020.
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