Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

Satellite Shoot Down

February 20, 2008 - A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched from the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) to intercept and destroy an inoperable spy satellite that contained hazardous hydrazine fuel.

Riki Ellison and John Pike discuss satellite shoot down on FOXNews

February 17, 2008 - Riki Ellison appeared with John Pike on the Geraldo at Large news program to discuss the planned shoot down of a dying toxic satellite using the deployed Aegis ballistic missile defense system.

Japanese Sea Based Interceptor (Aegis) Test

December 17, 2007 - 1st successful Japanese Sea Based Interceptor (Aegis) Test. Sea based interceptor launched from the JS Kongo . Target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) located at Kauai, Hawaii.

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Testing

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04/21/2008

U.S. Missile Defense Testing History (since the U.S. decision to deploy in December 2002)

	Range	Hits	Misses	No Test Due To: Target Failure/ Interceptor Failure	Sucess Percentage	Total Tests
Ground Based
GBI	Long Range	3	0	3	100%	3
THADD	Short Range/Medium Range	4	0	2	100%	4
PAC-3	Short Range	10	0	0	100%	10
Total		17	0	5	100%	17

Sea Based
Aegis	Short Range/Medium Range	9	1	1	90%	10

Air Based
NCADE	Short Range/Medium Range/Long Range	1	0	0	100%	1

Total	All Systems	27	1	6	97%	28

U.S. Missile Defense Testing Record for 2007

	Range	Hits	Misses	No Test Due To: Target Failure/ Interceptor Failure	Sucess Percentage	Total Tests
Ground Based
GBI	Long Range	2	0	0	100%	2
THADD	Short Range/Medium Range	3	0	0	100%	3
PAC-3	Short Range	1	0	0	100%	1
Total		6	0	0	100%	6

Sea Based
Aegis	Short Range/Medium Range	4	0	0	100%	4

Air Based
NCADE	Short Range/Medium Range/Long Range	1	0	0	100%	1

Total	All Systems	11	0	0	100%	11

U.S. Missile Defense Testing Record for the Last Six Months

	Range	Hits	Misses	No Test Due To: Target Failure/ Interceptor Failure	Sucess Percentage	Total Tests
Ground Based
GBI	Long Range	0	0	0		0
THADD	Short Range/Medium Range	0	0	0		0
PAC-3	Short Range	0	0	0		0
Total		0	0	0		0

Sea Based
Aegis	Short Range/Medium Range	0	0	0	0	0

Air Based
NCADE	Short Range/Medium Range/Long Range	1	0	0	100%	1

Total	All Systems	1	0	0	100%	1

International Missile Defense Testing History

	Range	Hits	Misses	No Test Due To: Target Failure/ Interceptor Failure	Sucess Percentage	Total Tests
Japanese Sea Based Tests
Aegis	Short Range/Medium Range	1	0	0	100%	1

Total	All Systems	1	0	0	100%	1

12/17/2007

(Last Test) 1st Successful Japanese Sea Based Interceptor Test (Aegis)
LAST TEST: December 17, 2007
FIRST TEST: December 17, 2007
TESTING RECORD: 100 percent; 1 successful tests out of 1 tests total (Since December 2007)

12/04/2007

(Last Test) 1st Successful Air Based Interceptor Test (NCADE)
LAST TEST: December 04, 2007
FIRST TEST: December 04, 2007
TESTING RECORD: 100 percent; 1 successful tests out of 1 tests total (Since December 2002)

11/06/2007

(Last Tests) 8th and 9th Successful Sea Based Interceptor Tests (Aegis)
LAST TEST: November 06, 2007
FIRST TEST: September 24, 1999
TESTING RECORD: 90 percent; 9 successful tests out of 10 tests total (Since December 2002)

10/27/2007

(Last Test) 4th Successful Ground Based Interceptor Test (THADD)
LAST TEST: October 27, 2007
FIRST TEST: November 22, 2005
TESTING RECORD: 100 percent; ALL 4 tests have been successful (Since December 2002)

09/28/2007

(Last Test) 3rd Successful Ground-based Interceptor (GBI)
LAST TEST: September 28, 2007
FIRST TEST: January 18, 2000
TESTING RECORD: 100 percent; 3 successful tests out of 3 tests total (Since December 2002)

07/19/2007

(Last Test) 10th Successful Ground Based Interceptor Test (PAC-3)
LAST TEST: July 19, 2007
FIRST TEST: March 15, 1999
TESTING RECORD: 100 percent; 10 successful tests out of 10 tests total (Since December 2002)

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12/18/2007	Japanese Sea Based Test (Aegis) Successful Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), reported today that at (12:11 p.m. Hawaii time), the Japanese Aegis Destroyer, the JS KONGO (DDG-173), shot down a scud-like target missile similar in speed and size to those deployed by the North Korean military off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.
12/04/2007	Successful Air Based Interceptor (NCADE) Test Yesterday in the skies over New Mexico, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter launched two air-to-air (AIM-9X) missiles and successfully intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range marking the first time a missile defense intercept was made from an air based platform. The two-stage air-to-air missiles have a new liquid propellant in their second stage rocket motor to provide the velocity necessary to intercept missiles in their initial boosting stage.
09/28/2007	Successful Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) Test The ground based interceptor (GBI) launched at 1:16pm PDT from the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Site at Vandenberg AFB, California. The interceptor propelled with an explosive glow of deep orange and white clouds of steam from its exhaust, moved slowly against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean and soared into space as the ground trembled with a deep rolling resonance. The sound from the missile was oddly delayed as the interceptor accelerated beyond ear sight past the speed of sound as the visual view of a neat white vapor trail thundering against the blue sky never let the sound catch it.
11/06/2007	Two Successful Sea Based Interceptor (Aegis) Tests On November 6th, at 11.12 p.m. EST, a salvo attack of two target single-stage missiles representing SCUD-like capability were fired within seconds of each other off the coast of Kauai at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) with each missile having a 400 km range. These two missile targets were picked up, tracked and discriminated immediately by the Aegis radar on the USS Lake Erie. Approximately 2 minutes later, the crew on the USS Lake Erie launched two Standard Missile-3 Block 1A (SM-3) from their vertical launch tubes in the back and front of the ship. Both target short-range ballistic missiles were destroyed two minutes later with the kinetic energy of the high velocity SM-3s directly hitting these fast moving target missiles about 100 miles up in space and 250 miles northwest over the Pacific Ocean from the PMRF in Kauai.
10/27/2007	Sucessful Ground Based Interceptor (THAAD) Test Late Friday evening Hawaiian Standard Time, a liquid-fueled single stage Scud missilestreaked across the tropical black sky over the Pacific Ocean near the northern islands of Hawaii after being launched from a sea-based floating barge. Moments later, after being detected and tracked by an X-band radar located on the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Kauai, a ground-based mobile defensive missile was launched from a different location on the same range in Barking Sands.
09/10/2007	Successful Test for KEI Rocket Motor This was a successful test of a stage 1 rocket for the continued development of the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI), which is a three-stage interceptor. The test of this high-acceleration rocket motor meet all objectives and the KEI system is scheduled to conduct a boost phase rocket flight test in 2008.