Posted by Tina
Military shoots down missile in test off Hawaii, by Audrey McAvoy
Honolulu – The U.S. military intercepted a ballistic missile Thursday in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite earlier this year. The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Hawaii’s island of Kauai. The USS Lake Erie, based at Pearl Harbor, fired two interceptor missiles that shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean.
President Bush said we would fight in many ways and on many fronts. This is yet another anti-terrorist war front success!