MISSILE INTERCEPT TEST SUCCESSFUL

Dept of Defense ^ | 12/3/01 | DoD

[onyx]

I can already see the hand-wringing and hear the groans from the democrats and the media. My oh my, Christmas has come early!

[SirChas]

This is good news!

Maybe now the press will stop talking about it as a failure all the time. Sorry, I lost my mind for a second.

[KQQL]

lol. Alleged success !!!

[usconservative]

I can already see the hand-wringing and hear the groans from the democrats and the media. My oh my, Christmas has come early!

Score one for the good guys! Reagan had the vision, and G.W. has the guts to see it through!

[Reborn]

I was wondering about this today. This is great news. Did you send a copy of this report to Saddam?

[JohnHuang2]

Great News!

[GeronL]

140 miles up??

good!

[TheAngryClam]

I love this, though I bet you that the press will somehow spin yet another success into failure. Funny thing is, most of them live in the top cities on the "to nuke" list- NYC and LA.

[GeronL]

you beat me to it

[No!]

"I can already see the hand-wringing and hear the groans from the democrats and the media."

I doubt that you'll hear anything much, if at all...

If, on the other hand, it FAILED.... well!.... (you know my point)...

[JohnHuang2]

Another WIN for the Gipper

[Diogenesis]

The GOOD, and the BRAVE:

Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, conducted a briefing
[Friday, Nov. 30 at 2 p.m.] on the upcoming Integrated Flight Test 7.

Maj. Gen. Ronald Kadish, director of the Ballistic Defense Organization, stands next to
a killer vehicle nose cone during a Pentagon news conference .

IFT-7 is scheduled to take place Saturday, Dec. 1, with a launch window from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. EST.
From the DoD News Briefing [Friday, 30 Nov 2001 - 2:00 pm]
Integrated Flight Test (IFT) 7 Test Overview:

Engagement Phases:

The Ballistic Missile Challenge:

Integrated Flight Test 7 Objectives:

Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle:

IFT-7 Targets:

Integrated Flight Test - 7:

Test Program Mission Sequence:

Differences:

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Previous thread - including technical briefing

[copycat]

Ronald Reagan Missile Site Kwajalein Atoll

Poetry...

[MJY1288]

WEEEEEE.....DOGGIE, another reason for the left to wring their hands as they try to find someone we might have been insensitive to.

[Brett66]

4,800 miles away from the Ronald Reagan Missile Site

Very appropriately named site.

[SirChas]

I'll bet these guys can tell me how a toaster works...

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

I watched ABC news last night, before the latest test. They stated that the tests had two out of four FAILED attempts thus far, not two out of four SUCCESSES! Nobody in the media or the Rat party believed in Ronnie Raygun's SDI, 'cept the Russkies! It was the beginning of their demise! God Bless Ronald Reagan and his beautiful wife and our great country! Semper Fi!

[DoughtyOne]

Sure is.

[freebilly]

The EKV separated from its rocket booster more than 1,400 miles from the target warhead. After separation, it used its on-board infrared and visual sensors, augmented with the X-Band radar data provided by BMC3 via the In-flight Interceptor Communications System, to locate and track the target. Sensors aboard the EKV also successfully selected the target instead of a large balloon, which functioned as a decoy. Only system-generated data was used for the intercept after the EKV separated from its booster rocket. A C-band transponder aboard the target warhead did not provide any tracking or targeting information to the interceptor after the interceptor was launched.

Sounds like the real deal. We'll hear a lot of whining from China & The People's Republic of California in the next few days.