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Successful Missile Strike Validates First Phase Of White House’s BMD Strategy

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Monday, April 18th, 2011

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By Carlo Munoz With the successful shootdown of a ballistic missile target over the Pacific by the Navy's premiere ship-based ballistic missile defense system, the Missile Defense Agency cleared a major milestone in the White House's European missile defense strategy. In the early morning hours of April 15, a Raytheon [RTN]-built SM-3 Block IA missile interceptor was launched from an Aegis BMD system on board the USS O'Kane (DDG-77) and was able to find, track and destroy the intermediate-range target…

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