Swordsmyth
05-26-2017, 04:47 PM
Less than a month after the US Air Force successfully test fired two Minuteman ICBM (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-03/latest-warning-north-korea-us-releases-video-overnight-minuteman-iii-icbm-launch)missiles from California's Vanderberg Air Force base, which hit a target approximately 4,200 miles away at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, today Pentagon officials said that the US will try to shoot down an intercontinental-range missile for the first time in a test next week, in "preparation for North Korea's growing threat." According to AP, (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MISSILE_INTERCEPTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-26-12-34-53) the stated goal is "to more closely simulate a North Korean ICBM aimed at the U.S. homeland."
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency on Tuesday will shoot an interceptor from the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, a network meant to protect the country against a limited nuclear attack, at a custom-made missile meant to simulate an ICBM.
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-26/pentagon-will-try-shoot-down-test-icbm-next-tuesday?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency on Tuesday will shoot an interceptor from the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, a network meant to protect the country against a limited nuclear attack, at a custom-made missile meant to simulate an ICBM.
More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-26/pentagon-will-try-shoot-down-test-icbm-next-tuesday?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29