Standard Missile-3 Block 1B guided missile launched from the USS Lake Erie. Flickr/U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Dave Majumdar, National Interest: How the U.S. Navy is Trying to Make China's 'Carrier-Killer' Missiles Obsolete
The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully launched a salvo of two Raytheon Standard SM-6 Dual I missiles against a medium-range ballistic missile target earlier this week. USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)—an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer—conducted the test shortly after midnight on Dec. 14 to demonstrate a Sea Based Terminal endo-atmospheric defensive capability.
"This test demonstrated the capabilities MDA and the Navy are delivering to our fleet commanders," Vice Adm. Jim Syring, director of the MDA said in a statement. "The SM-6 missile and the Aegis Weapon System continue to prove that they are critical components of our nation's multilayered, robust ballistic missile defense system."
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Update: US Aegis destroyer demonstrates the ability to shoot down a maneuvering antiship missile like China's DF missiles (Next Big Future)
WNU Editor: I suspect that these improvements are going to get even better with time.
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