[ReignOfError]

Right out of a Tom Clancy novel.

Except that in Red Storm Rising, it was a modified air intercept missile fired from a fighter, an F18, IIRC.

[L,TOWM]

I was thinking of the last one — Executive Action or Dragon and Bear or somesuch — there was a part of the book when President Ryan is sitting on an Aegis Cruiser in Chesepeake Bay that fires several missiles to “shoot down” an incoming nuke warhead.

[TalonDJ]

15 probably. More power. A Pegasus can be launched from the F-15 and hit a satilite. The only reason they claim not to have this as off the shelf technology is political.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Except that in Red Storm Rising, it was a modified air intercept missile fired from a fighter, an F18, IIRC.”

Actually in the book it was labeled as an ASAT missile, and was fired from an F-15

IIRC, the pilot’s nickname in the book was “Buns” or something like that.