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To: CodeToad

On February 21, 2008 at 3:26 am (UTC) the USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, fired a single SM-3 missile, hit and successfully destroyed the satellite, with a closing velocity of about 22,783 mph (36,667 km/h) while the satellite was 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) above the Pacific Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3#Anti-satellite


85 posted on 10/01/2013 6:04:00 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

A hit that took major reprogramming and setting up the right conditions. Not anything at all like hitting missiles at will.


87 posted on 10/01/2013 7:41:44 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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