US Navy tests missile-defense system in Hawaii… 7 FEBRUARY, 2017 A new missile-defense system developed by the United States and Japan destroyed a target missile during a test off the coast of Hawaii on Friday, a Missile Defense Agency statement said. The intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile, launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, was a first for the system, which had conducted two previous flight tests, the statement said. The USS John Paul Jones, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, detected and tracked the target with its onboard radar, then shot it down with the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, the statement said. Vice Adm. Jim Syring, MDA’s director, called the system vital to the security of the U.S. and Japan. READ MORE
It looks like we can play that game too! Only thing is when you start playing "war games" you may end up in one. And I really don't want to see anymore of our young men and women get wounded, maimed, or killed because of people playing "King of the Hill".