Newsweek:
The U.S. military has conducted a successful test of a missile defense system, which could significantly improve the country’s ability to shoot down a nuclear-armed missile fired by an enemy state.
On October 26, staff from the Missile Defense Agency and the Navy fired an SM-3 Block IIA missile from the USS John Finn in the Pacific, successfully intercepting a medium-range ballistic missile target launched from a facility at Kauai, Hawaii, according to an MDA statement.
The SM-3 Block IIA is being developed by Raytheon Company in collaboration with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, forming part of the AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System. AEGIS is the naval component of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System, which is managed by the MDA and the Navy.
