U.S. Aegis-Equipped Destroyer Tracks ICBM

The USS Hopper last month participated in a successful missile defense test off the coast of southern California, AFNS reported today (see GSN, Feb. 24).

The destroyer used its Aegis weapons system to detect and track a Minuteman 3 missile launched Feb. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (see GSN, Feb. 17). It provided data from the launch to the Space and Naval Warfare Space Systems Center in San Diego and the Joint National Test Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., according to AFNS (Jamie Lynn De Coster, AFNS/SpaceWar.com, March 1).

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