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The only context in which I’ve heard the term “Fox” for a missile is in the cockpit of a fighter jet.

With all this missile talk, I had a thought. If indeed this was a defensive action, who's to say it was the ONLY defensive action. Another poster suggested, and I agree with him, that firing from that populated location seems the act of the last minute with no time to prepare or move to a better location.

If that is the case, then whatever assets were available at that critical time would have been called into play. It just so happens that a weather cam caught this missile launch. Perhaps other ordinance was fired from other assets (ships/planes/subs) but they weren't captured on camera.

Fox 3 could be referring to that or maybe even be used in a general sense.

Eh? Possibilities.

Bagster

I like your theory of more than one defense used.

I listen a lot more than i talk. Listening to my sons-in-law talk military stuff. I would give credence to multiple defensive rounds fired of I know not what.

These missiles have a boost phase which represents the slowest and most vulnerable stage of the entire flight. It is at least conceivable that if a fighter, or other airborne platform, is within a certain range of a missile launch from the surface, the missile stack could be intercepted during ascent by a radar-guided missile. I’m not saying that is definitively what happened, just that it’s conceivable.

The missile launch would be detected and tracked from the start by IR sensors (airborne and/or space-based) which can see through clouds.

My question is, does the cabal have one or more of their own boomers, or are they hacking into fire control of a Navy boomer? If they have one or more boomers and presumably dozens of missiles, why have they only launched one at a time instead of an unstoppable barrage? Are they trying to stage a FF based on a supposedly “rogue” missile launch from a convenient adversary?

In any case, we are at an extraordinarily dangerous moment when potentially millions of lives are hinging on the good guys continuing to be successful at scoring one-shot-one-kill hits on nuclear-armed missiles.