American Warship USS John Finn shoots down missile in space ( video )
 

I find all of the military tech utterly amazing - and scary.

In the Marine Corps I was a TOW Gunner - shooting small wire guided missiles at tanks. Now, from what I've read.... Now they the Javelin, which is shoulder launched, automatically tracks a tank, and then destroys it from coming straight down out of the sky and punching through the top of the enemy tank. The best part is this is "old" already - 1996 technology. LOL.

Now they small drones they can launch the field, instant communications any where in the world; Someone in the United States can launch an attack and destroy an enemy tank from thousands of miles away. Fucking insane.

Wait until robots hit the battlefield. You know this is coming. We've all seen the Boston Dynamics videos....

I think the timing of this public release is a message to Russia.
A counter capability to the new super-sonic ICBM's ?
Seems that way but I have seen no specs for this.
Thanks for posting, caught me off guard. Don't know how I missed it's news.
Probably part of the issue with the anti-missile treaty (and china not in it being the other).

That's what I was thinking too.

Nothing special at all. It's easy to shoot down your own missile, if you have prepared, your ship is located ahead to (only ahead!) and under the missile trajectory, you know it's exact course, the missile does not use interference systems and doesn't change its trajectory (the modern ballistic missiles can correct it to avoid interception). So in the real life it's still just impossible.

Years ago Chia did the same thing, using their missile system which was copied from Russian S-400 aka SA-21 Growler by NATO calssification. Not a big deal...

Russians can't even get the missile off the ground or rocket into space they take 2 steps back since Trump

Sure man, sure :winkwink:

Since Trump you've had one failure after another, it's the deep states revenge on your motherland :winkwink:

Yes, yes :)

All recent failures of Russia in space are result of incompetent management of the new Rosscosmos chief - a clueless moron and complete idiot who has shot his own leg. Hey, I mean it literally. A couple of years ago he has really shot his own leg with a gun. Only senile Putin could allow such a person to manage the Russian space sector.

As about the military missiles, so fortunately they are managed by other people who know their job...

You are absolutely correct.
Whenever a nation tests such a thing and make it public, it is a statement. 'we have this'

It is up to others to ponder it's true full capabilities.
Sometimes this stuff is somewhat fake or not capable more than demonstrated. Meant to cause others to spend more in some area to counter it.

You can not always afford to be right in your assessment. But can you afford to be wrong ?

They are tit for tat plays in a long game.
More often used in some future negotiation regulating their use, location or number.

Measures and countermeasures that in the end, nobody really can or wants to know how they will really play out.

Sad to say that Mutual Assured Destruction has kept the peace.
All power must be kept in check in some form or the people for which the power serves suffer. When someone at least thinks they have a advantage, they are soon to try to make use of it.
And it's easy to look around the globe to see just that.

People bleed not nations or corporations.
I would rather see all people enjoy life from the lack of any advantage.

I'd say: ... not government and corporations :2 cents:

Stop worrying about the Russians for fucks sake...they are NOT the enemy, the jihhad is :2 cents:

You all drank the cool aid ? Or what !

More USIS invader tech...invasion is so deep in the american "culture" that americans are actually proud of their military that "protects" america from non existent threats..."look what we are going to attack the weak with next! Yeah! 'Merica"...

This is why small countries should turn to developing "off"...why give the invader a fair fight? No reason for this at all...I think "fuck off or die" is a reasonable foreign policy to have against invader nations...