One shot, one kill. What a good day for the Navy and America.
They didn’t nick it either, because it didn’t start hissing, it blew up.
Are there any good links to video of the shoot? I checked YouTube but all I found were cheesy animations.
We’ve been told by ignorant leftists for 25 YEARS that this was an impossible feat, like “hitting a bullet with a bullet” — yet counting all the tests from both land and sea, we have done it quite a few times now.
Nice shot! Released Navy footage here:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/video-pentagon.html
Pootie, do you need to change your tighty whities now?
Not only hit it but hit the center..Amazing.
What I just continue to fin awesome is that they were able to choose there point of impact. I am not sure if I am understanding everything right but it is truly amazing.
These folks have a pretty tough straight-forward job to do keeping us safe. Sometimes it’s pretty grim. I’m glad they got this moment to shine and I hope it puts our enemies at pause for a bit...
More likely likely accomplished one of its goals of destroying the satellite’s toxic fuel tank...
Raise a glass to the gipper and Star Wars!
I still wish they’d stop saying “shoot down” - they didn’t shoot down squat. They destroyed it - it was already in a low and decaying orbit, and while this may have hastened that process, “shoot down” is not the right terminology. It’s not a plane being kept aloft by lift from its wings that comes crashing down when hit by a missile - it’s an orbiting object. Only gravity and the drag of the earth’s atmosphere can effectively bring it down.
Burn up? Fireball? There is no Oxygen in space.
...think there was a camera in the nose?
Take note, Abadinijerk! And you Chicoms too! And you too Putinsky!