A successful experiment with missile defence interceptor

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The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have recently conducted a first successful experiment for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA. The missile has an improved engine and the ability to hot short-range missiles as well as medium-range ballistic missiles. Dr. Taylor M. Lawrence, president of Raytheon, who developed the missile, estimates that if the experiments continue successfully, the plan to operate the missile and to spread it across all fronts by 2018 will become a reality.

As the experiment was only an initial one, the missile was not put before an object simulating the target to intercept and only a launching was carried out. The experiment, which was a great success, is part of a multi-setp program of the U.S. goverment for protection of missile threat against it. The state is putting a lot funds in developing this defence infrastructure since it is its main threat today, as there’s no serious threat from an invasion by Canada from the north border nor by Mexico in the south border. During the cold war, this threat was especially serious, more than any other threat the country faced, so the missile defence program isn’t anything new. Nowadays it seems that the threat on the powerful country has diminished but still, now and then the tyrant of North Korea is sounding threats of launching missiles towards the country, and so, even with the Cold War long over, the Americans are still constantly alert by this threat.