BREAKING: Missile HITS Potentially Killer Satellite! Updating Regularly
They gotta be going nuts on the USS Lake Erie, man…
So they say the satellite was traveling at 17,000 mph, that is actually faster than an ICBM…AND it was cooler…
We own the sky…therefore, we own the world. The Russians and the Chinese and, yes, especially the Iranians, are shitting their pants right now…fuck ‘em.
This feels better than…anybody remember in Desert Storm, when we found out how many of the SCUD missiles the patriot system was slapping down? This feels kind of like that, only better.
WASHINGTON - The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles—not orbiting satellites—launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. EST, according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite as the spacecraft traveled at more than 17,000 mph.
A defense official says a missile launched from a Navy ship in the Pacific hit the U.S. spy satellite it was targeting 130 miles above Earth’s surface. Full details are not yet available.
It happened just after 10:30 p.m. EST.
Two officials said the missile was launched successfully. One official, who is close to the process, said it hit the target. He said details on the results were not immediately known.
The goal in this first-of-its-kind mission for the Navy was not just to hit the satellite but to obliterate a tank aboard the spacecraft carrying 1,000 pounds of a toxic fuel called hydrazine.
U.S. officials have said the fuel would pose a potential health hazard to humans if it landed in a populated area. Although the odds of that were small even if the Pentagon had chosen not to try to shoot down the satellite, it was determined that it was worth trying to eliminate even that small chance.
Officials said it might take a day or longer to know for sure if the toxic fuel was blown up.
(AP)
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