Washington Free Beacon
Two U.S. Ground-based Interceptor missiles destroyed a target in space during a successful test of the Pentagon’s strategic missile defense system on Monday.
The interceptor missiles were fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In the first salvo-launch against a target intercontinental missile launched 4,000 miles away at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, according to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
The first GBI destroyed the target missile’s reentry vehicle and the second interceptor zeroed in on debris and blew up the largest piece in a precision kill, the MDA announced. More
SNIP: Vandenberg AFB
Thank you, President Reagan.
But democrats said it would never work. “You can’t hit a bullet with a bullet.” Make them eat their words.
Whenever the dem-wits used the old “can’t shoot a bullet with a bullet” meme, I would point out that jet fighters fly faster than bullets, and they sure as hell can shoot each other down.
For Vandenberg’s next trick, they will shoot down an Indian anti-satellite missile.