Japanese navy conducts missile test [Image 1 of 2]

USPACOM, AT SEA

10.28.2009

Courtesy Photo

U.S. Navy           

A Standard Missile-3 is launched from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Myoko in a joint missile defense intercept test with the Missile Defense Agency in the Pacific Ocean. The SM-3 successfully intercepted a medium-range target that had been launched minutes earlier from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. Myoko's crew detected and tracked the target, developed a fire control solution, then launched the SM-3.

• Date Taken: 10.28.2009
• Date Posted: 10.28.2009 16:15
• Photo ID: 217842
• VIRIN: 091028-N-0000X-001
• Resolution: 1200x1500
• Size: 1.38 MB
• Location: USPACOM, AT SEA