[Dean's World] Dean: Hitting A Bullet With A Bullet

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Posted by Dean:
Hitting A Bullet With A Bullet
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1157207438.shtml


   The San Jose Mercury News [1]Reports:

     The 54-foot interceptor shot out of an underground silo at
     Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast at 10:39
     a.m., 17 minutes after a target missile was launched from Kodiak
     Island, Alaska.

     A refrigerator-size "kill vehicle" separated from the interceptor.
     Moving at 18,000 mph, it struck a 4-foot-long mock warhead released
     by the other missile and both disintegrated more than 100 miles up
     and a few hundred miles west of Vandenberg, said Missile Defense
     Agency spokesman Rick Lehner.

   Kewl.

References

   1. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15420744.htm