The Airborne Laser is not yet in service.
I would not bet the farm on that statement. It is much more likely, however, that an AEGIS ship got the thing. But we'll gladly mark it down as a "failure".
Be Seeing You,
Chris
The Airborne Laser is not yet in service.
I would not bet the farm on that statement. It is much more likely, however, that an AEGIS ship got the thing. But we'll gladly mark it down as a "failure".
Be Seeing You,
Chris
DPRK launches two No-dong short range missiles, and one Taepodong-2 long range missile. Japanese intelligence noted activity at both Taepodong launch site AND No-dong launch sites in Northeast North Korea (Yomiuri news in Japanese)....
The ABL is still undergoing ground tests and hasn't even been flight-tested as a complete system.
That said, we've been feverishly working cranking out SM-3s, and the SM2 has some limited ABM capability.
My guess is that the TP-2 met one or more SMs from an Aegis cruiser. (The Japanese haven't bought any SM3s yet.)