Tuesday, the Pentagon successfully shot down an ICBM in their first attempt of a test of this kind as we inch closer toward potential conflict with North Korea.
The Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency “shot an interceptor” at a test target missile simulated to behave like an ICBM.
The target missile launched from Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific — nearly 5,0000 miles from Los Angeles — and the interceptor was fired from an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The intercept took place over the Pacific Ocean, according to a Pentagon statement.
“The intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target is an incredible accomplishment for the GMD system and a critical milestone for this program,” MDA Director Vice Adm. Jim Syring said in the statement.
Head of US Missile Agency said he is “incredibly proud of the warfighters who executed” test of an ICBM interceptor. https://t.co/xf4JrzMZ6u pic.twitter.com/wkgQm7xis7
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