Sunday, December 13, 2015

One more New Year's surprise to Putin: new missile defense the USA successfully intercepts the Kremlin rockets

In anticipation of New year of «Iskanders» of Putin don't laugh any more, they hung after learned that to Americans their tactical nuclear missiles aren't terrible now.



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The USA for the first time successfully tested land option of antimissile defense of «Idzhis system» – Aegis Ashore which analog was earlier so productively tested for the sea.

As well as the sea version of this missile defense, system of land basing effectively intercepted the ballistic educational purpose imitating start of the rocket with the nuclear warhead which is armed at Russia. Reports the site Lockheed Martin about it – the developer of the Standard SM-3 Block IB antirocket which struck a target – the simulator of the rocket of average range started from the C-17 plane (analog of the tactical nuclear missile which the Russian Iskander system is capable to start). It was recorded by a radar of AN/TPY-2 and transferred coordinates to Aegis Ashore system which intercepted a target already with use of own locator of AN/SPY-1.

«Last tests proved that possibilities of Aegis on interception of the ballistic purposes which were shown at the sea within the last years earlier, will become available soon to land missile defense systems which are constructed in Romania within the 2nd stage of the European stage-by-stage adaptive program (European Phased Adaptive Approach, EPAA)», – the vice-admiral James Siring, the agency head on antimissile defense (MDA) of the Ministry of Defence of the USA declared.

The Aegis Ashore system constructed in Romania in May, 2015 and which is nowadays passing tests will come on duty in some weeks – at the end of December. The similar object will be built by 2018 in the north of Poland – around Redzikovo to the coast of the Baltic Sea.

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