Re: World Armed Forces Pic Thread
Pacific Ocean (Nov. 17, 2005) - A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test. Minutes later, the SM-3 intercepted a separating ballistic missile threat target, launched form the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. The test was the sixth intercept, in seven flight tests, by the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
Sasebo, Japan (Oct. 5, 2005) – Fire Controlman 2nd Class Jared B.C. Lamson and Fire Controlman 3rd Class John D. Hermes upload a RIM-7 NATO Sea Sparrow missile into a launcher cell as Chief Fire Controlman Morris C. Spaulding supervises aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).