Video of Spy Satellite Getting Shot Down

Gizmodo ^ | 21 February, 2008 | Gizmodo

[Night Hides Not]

Refer all future inquiries to my lawyer.

Thanks...I'll get right on it! :^)

[avacado]

Thanks for the info. The fact that it was a cold target, as you say, makes sense to me that this was quite an accomplishment.

Good’ol USofA!

[Ditto]

Somewhere, The Gipper is smiling.

[Blue State Insurgent]

I saw the debis streak through the sky last night while watching the eclipse. It slow moving and a beautiful aqua color.

I don’t know which was the most amazing sight: the eclipse, the shoot down or the clear skies!

[Royal Wulff]

Is better video available yet?

[Royal Wulff]

Here’s a slightly better one. Bottom of page.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bda_1203609761

[reaganbooster]

LOL. You’re too much!

[Publius6961]

Being and old navy veteran, I am so proud of the men and women of the USS Lake Erie. That was some accomplishment. Our military people are the best of the best!

As do I; but I realize that the real heroes are the geeks who are faceless who made it all possible, and the hardware manufacturers who actually made it work.

[coloradan]

Heh.

[puppypusher]

I’m sure if that was a hostile I.C.B.M. coming towards the U.S. they would have fired that missile during rain,snow,sleet or hail and it would have produced the same result.

The only reason they needed to do it on a clear day was to prove photographically that the satellite was totally destroyed.

[scripter]

ping

[Mr. K]

NOW I see why I didn’t hear much about this the last few days- it was a SUCCESS!

I didn’t even know they had launched it until the (typical) media crybabies started complainng the the Chinese were upset.

I like that the military placated them by saying we would ‘share info’ with them about the incident- in other words we would show them their ballistic missiles were now obsolete.

[JDinAustin]

5000 lb "Killer" sat reduced to football sized pieces by this little guy also not much bigger than a football. On must marvel at how hard it is to hit a target closing at 20000 mph, not just hit it but hit the much smaller "toxic fuel" tank they were aiming for too. spectrograph's indicate that the tank was hit directly. This shootdown cough "test" adds credibility to the SM-3 program to hit the warhead section of an inbound ICBM's reentry vehicle too. Since the PC crowd whines that not hitting the warhead section of a RV will only scatter the possible bio-agents in the upper atmosphere. conversly direct impact at 11+ km/s relative velocities will generate temperatures at impact in excess of 5000'K well above the disassociation point of every ionic or covalently bonded compound. In laymans terms it will atomize any bio or chemical agent. SM-3 proved it has the smarts to hit a point target on a 7 Km/s body , which is the speed of an incoming ICBM btw nice how that works out that way :)