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December 3, 2007 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

In a landmark test on December 3, a U.S. F-16 fighter jet used an air-to-air missile to intercept and destroy a sounding rocket in its boost phase for the first time. The Net-Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCDE) can equip fighter aircrafts with missile interceptors that could eliminate ballistic missiles as they lift into space. While the aircraft could only intercept missiles within a 100 miles of the launch site, Missile Defense Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said the NCDE could still be effective against short and medium range missiles.
The test at White Sands, New Mexico, involved a F-16 fighter jet armed with two modified AIM-9X missiles. The missile seekers' relayed images of the rocket at close range, demonstrating the capability to acquire and track the target. Besides special seekers, AIM-9X and AIM-20 AAMRAM are fitted with a new liquid propellant second stage to give it the burst of speed needed to catch a ballistic missile in its boost phase.

Currently, the Pentagon is developing two other boost-phase intercept systems: the Airborne Laser and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor. (Article, Link)

AVBsupersonic

Mar 22 2012, 09:33 PM

Pathetic fools comment were meant for NKors!

Hitman

Mar 22 2012, 05:46 AM

ayoshi

Mar 22 2012, 03:42 AM

Philippine Defense dept. to monitor North Korea rocket launch

MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Defense (DND) on Wednesday said it would strictly monitor North Korea's rocket launch which is expected to be done on April 12 to 16.

"What can we do is monitor (the event) and we'll ask appropriate agencies with capabilities to know more about this," said DND Spokesman Peter Paul Galvez.

He issued this statement following reports that rocket launch will dump debris off Luzon as it enters its flight path.

"We will try to know more about this, the details of the flight path, so we can appropriately warn people of the possible areas which will be affected by the debris," Galvez stressed.

But the DND spokesman is hopeful that nothing untoward will happen as debris from space often disintegrate upon reentry from the Earth's atmosphere.

"It disintegrates basically but it's good enough for all of us to ensure the safety of our people so we try to know specifically what areas (that) might be affected with this missile launch," he said.

The United States, Japan and South Korea see North Korea’s plan as a thinly veiled long-range missile test, which would breach a United Nation ban and violate last month’s denuclearization deal with Washington.

Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said such criticism was a “sinister provocation by hostile forces.”

It said that North Korean has a right to peaceful development in space, adding its government had notified international aviation and maritime bodies of the rocket’s flight path.

Next month’s rocket launch is timed to coincide with mass celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the nation’s founding president, Kim Il-sung.

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what can they monitor North Korea with when we do not even have modern radars? ask the US again? lol. what else.

AVBsupersonic

Mar 22 2012, 09:33 PM

At least maybe if we have Fighter Jet Capability there maybe a chance to blow them up to pieces in the sky before it reach our area...    Just saying this is better than not having no options at all and regardless if it's going to work or not??? 

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On Sewer Rat's uploaded map, seems it's aimed directly to reach Philippine's location when the Pacific NE side is so wide???

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Pathetic fools comment were meant for NKors!

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ICBM type God Help us..!

gritpaladin

Mar 23 2012, 11:40 AM

what puzzles me is that why is it that the trajectory path of the Rocket passes thru our Philippines Air Space? Why can't be somewhere in the middle of the Pacific like between Philippines and Guam as long as in International Waters..