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American Shooters Aim To Kill The NRO Satellite

by | 21st, February 2008

ALL those guns make you a decent shot:

The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles — not orbiting satellites — launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. EST, according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite about three minutes later as the spacecraft traveled in polar orbit at more than 17,000 mph.”



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