U.S. Destroyer Intercepts Target Mimicking a North Korean ICBM
- Raytheon Standard Missile-3 accomplishes a first: Pentagon
- Missile model was co-developed with the Japanese military
A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile test in 2015.
Photographer: Ralph Scott/DIVIDS
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A U.S. Navy destroyer successfully intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile designed to simulate one developed by North Korea, a Pentagon official said.
The Aegis-class destroyer operating near Hawaii earlier Tuesday fired a Standard Missile-3 model Block II A made by Raytheon Technologies Corp. at the target launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.