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Originally Posted by Canmoore
Do not wet your panties just yet... the equipment and software needed to kill this satellite was retrofitted to a Cruiser, and was intended for this one time use only.
The US navy has no inventory of navy based anti-satellite ships or equipment.. this was a one time event, the US navy cannot operate any stand alone anti-satellite warfare...
still pretty cool though!!!
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You sure? I thought 3 Aegis ships were on alert to shoot it down.
Also they used the SM-3 ABM missile, which had it's software modified for its sensors to recognize the satellite is the target.
I'm not sure if just the SM-3's on the ship at the time were modified just once, or if it is a permanent modification.