Aegis BMD Success in Pacific

Here is a cool video of the Aegis BMD in action. From You Tube, the description is:

First successful simultaneous engagement of a short range ballistic missile (SRBM) and a anti-air warfare (AAW) target by the Aegis BMD 3.6 Weapon System. USS Lake Erie launched and guided a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3)Blk IA missile to a successful intercept of a SRBM and a SM-2 Blk IIIA to the intercept of a low-altitude cruise missile. Approved for release 26 Apr 2007.

Video

Edit: Whoops, just realized that this video is probably not from the test yesterday... Being that it is about a month old. But, here is a link to the story anyways: Aegis BMD Test in Pacific

[edit on 4/27/2007 by Rotoplooker]

Your vid doesn't work, but they've been saying the tests would start to get harder. Glad to see they're still moving forward with that. The Lake Eerie has been clean sweeping these tests for a few years now. One malfunctioning missile is the only miss I'm aware of.

NICE video. This is a good system and it's only getting better.

[edit on 4/27/2007 by Zaphod58]