The Missile Defense Agency of Department of Defense announced this morning that it successfully completed a test aboard the USS John Finn (DDG-113) destroyer to intercept and destroy an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target outside Earth’s atmosphere above the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii.
At approximately 7:50 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time, (12:50 a.m., Nov. 17, EST), the ICBM-representative target was launched from a test site located on the Marshall Islands, 2,600 miles from Hawaii. After receiving tracking data, the destroyer launched a missile that destroyed the target.
