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1. A Kenetic Kill Vehicle is designed to destroy theater ballistic missile warheads outside the Earth's atmosphere. It impacts its targets at hypersonic speeds (lets say about 6 miles per second). To test it, you use a target that simulates a ballistic missile warhead.

Try working on your reading comprehension, Rokke, the spelling leaves a little to be desired, also...Aww I'll overlook the Kenetic Kill Vehicle if you'll give Mike Sommers the benefit of the doubt on ol' Benton/Burton. The source I gave for the following statement that proves you are full of Bull $**T is a Department of Defense site. Try going there if you won't take my word for it. It's easy. Cut and paste, http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/sm-2.htm or Click HERE The salient point in this case is underlined and bold. You should have no difficulty.

The SM-2 Block IVA upgrade is being developed to provide capability against theater ballistic missiles, although it is planned to retain capability against anti-air warfare threats.

2. The Standard Block IVA has been actually fired twice with the first test in 1997.

From the same article...

A System Design Review for SM-2 Block IVA was conducted in December 1993 and a Risk Reduction Flight Demonstration (RRFD) program was initiated in FY 1994. An Environmental Test Round (ETR-2A) was successfully launched in the summer 1996.

Gee...That's a coincidence. The summer of 1996...July, d'ya suppose?

Stan's "sailor story" said something about a Test Round, I believe...

"the spelling leaves a little to be desired"

Note to self...run spell check before responding to Acehai...naahh.

"proves you are full of Bull $**T"

First, your link is not a DoD site. But I'll give you partial credit for not linking me to something done by Salinger/Sommers. Second, the anti-air capability of the Block IV was never resolved, so no one is really sure what it's capability is against non-TBM air threats. The Block IV A was designed as an anti-TBM missile. That is all it has been tested against.
Third, don't get too excited about ETR-2A. Environmental Test flights are usually conducted at one of the primary missile test centers (most likely White Sands in New Mexico). I'd bet a steak dinner ETR-2A was not launched from a ship (or sub) and highly doubt it was even launched at a target.

But, if your (and Barf's) theory hinges on TWA800 being shotdown by the ETR-2A missile, then a simple verification of where or even when that test took place ought to clarify things. I'll find that out for you.