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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated September 18, 2013 shows an SM-3 Block 1B interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency test and successfully intercepted a complex short-range ballistic missile target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. Department of Defense photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated December 10, 2018 shows a Standard Missile (SM) 3 Block IIA is launched from the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Army photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated May 26, 2021 shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) launches an SM-3 during a live-fire exercise during exercise At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield, in the Atlantic Ocean. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan T. Beard) 210526-N-QI061-0033

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated May 16, 2013 shows a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated May 16, 2013 show a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated October 25, 2012 shows the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) launches a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) as apart of a joint ballistic missile defense exercise. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated May 16, 2013 shows a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Navy Warships Fired SM-3s To Intercept Iranian Missiles

Handout photo dated February 13, 2013 shiws a standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1A interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. US Navy warships used a missile interceptor for the first time in combat over the weekend while defending Israel from an unprecedented Iranian attack. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said American forces fired the Standard Missile 3, or SM-3, to engage Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired as part of the massive barrage, which included more than 300 missiles and drones launched from Tehran and its proxies. U.S. Navy photo via ABACAPRESS.COM

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PAC-3 interceptor in Okinawa

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A Self-Defense Force member moves near a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture at 7:42 a.m. on April 13, 2012, shortly after North Korea fired a rocket at 7:38 a.m. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the Defense Ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters.

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PAC-3 interceptors in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors remain on standby at the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo at 11:18 a.m. on April 13, 2012, even though the North Korean rocket launch earlier in the morning ended in failure. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters.

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris.

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris.

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Japan orders N. Korean rocket destruction

SASEBO, Japan - The Aegis destroyers of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Kongou (L) and the Choukai, dock at the MSDF base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on March 27. The destroyers are equipped with the launcher of the Standard Missile-3 which can intercept a ballistic missile in space.

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MSDF destroyer returns after missile interception test

SASEBO, Japan - Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Kongou returns to its home port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Jan. 4 after a successful missile interception test with a Standard Missile-3 system on Dec. 17 in space over the Pacific near Hawaii.

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Japan's 6th Aegis warship named Ashigara is launched

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japan's sixth Aegis destroyer Ashigara is launched at a ceremony in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s dockyard in Nagasaki on Aug. 30. The Ashigara will be fitted with the U.S.-developed sea-based Standard Missile-3 antimissile system after it goes into service in spring 2008.

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Japan, U.S. carry out 1st missile defense test successfully

WASHINGTON, United States - A Standard Missile-3 is successfully launched from the U.S. Navy cruiser Lake Erie in the Pacific Ocean off Kauai Island in Hawaii on March 8. The Standard Missile-3 interceptor is tipped with an innovative ''clamshell'' nose cone developed by Japan. The photo was released by the U.S. Defense Department. (Kyodo)

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Japan intercepts ballistic missile in space test off Hawaii

KAUAI ISLAND, United States - A U.S.-made Standard Missile 3 is fired from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kongou, equipped with the Aegis advanced missile tracking system, off Hawaii on Dec. 17 to intercept a mock mid-range ballistic missile launched from a U.S. military range on Hawaii's Kauai Island in space. Photo was released by the MSDF. (Kyodo)

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Japan intercepts ballistic missile in space test off Hawaii

KAUAI ISLAND, United States - A U.S.-made Standard Missile 3 is fired from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kongou, equipped with the Aegis advanced missile tracking system, off Hawaii on Dec. 17 to intercept a mock mid-range ballistic missile launched from a U.S. military range on Hawaii's Kauai Island in space. Photo was released by the MSDF. (Kyodo)

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Japan intercepts ballistic missile in space test off Hawaii

KAUAI ISLAND, United States - A U.S.-made Standard Missile 3 is fired from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kongou, equipped with the Aegis advanced missile tracking system, off Hawaii on Dec. 17 to intercept a mock mid-range ballistic missile launched from a U.S. military range on Hawaii's Kauai Island in space. Photo was released by the MSDF. (Kyodo)

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Japan intercepts ballistic missile in space test off Hawaii

KAUAI ISLAND, United States - A U.S.-made Standard Missile 3 is fired from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kongou, equipped with the Aegis advanced missile tracking system, off Hawaii on Dec. 17 to intercept a mock mid-range ballistic missile launched from a U.S. military range on Hawaii's Kauai Island in space. Photo was released by the MSDF. (Kyodo)

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Japan orders N. Korean rocket destruction

SASEBO, Japan - The Aegis destroyers of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Kongou (L) and the Choukai, dock at the MSDF base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on March 27. The destroyers are equipped with the launcher of the Standard Missile-3 which can intercept a ballistic missile in space. (Kyodo)

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Japan's 6th Aegis warship named Ashigara is launched

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japan's sixth Aegis destroyer Ashigara is launched at a ceremony in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s dockyard in Nagasaki on Aug. 30. The Ashigara will be fitted with the U.S.-developed sea-based Standard Missile-3 antimissile system after it goes into service in spring 2008. (Kyodo)

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MSDF destroyer returns after missile interception test

SASEBO, Japan - Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis destroyer Kongou returns to its home port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Jan. 4 after a successful missile interception test with a Standard Missile-3 system on Dec. 17 in space over the Pacific near Hawaii. (Kyodo)

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris. (Kyodo)

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Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor is unloaded from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's transport ship Osumi at Hirara port on Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3, 2012. Japan is deploying the PAC-3 interceptors mainly in Okinawa Prefecture and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying the sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea to act as a missile shield against a rocket North Korea is planning to launch later in April or its debris. (Kyodo)

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PAC-3 interceptor in Okinawa

MIYAKOJIMA, Japan - A Self-Defense Force member moves near a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor in Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture at 7:42 a.m. on April 13, 2012, shortly after North Korea fired a rocket at 7:38 a.m. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the Defense Ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters. (Kyodo)

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PAC-3 interceptors in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors remain on standby at the premises of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo at 11:18 a.m. on April 13, 2012, even though the North Korean rocket launch earlier in the morning ended in failure. To brace for the possibility of rocket debris falling on Japanese territory, the ministry had deployed ground-based interceptors in Okinawa and in Tokyo. It also dispatched three Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors to nearby waters. (Kyodo)