标题: Aided by STSS, US Navy Intercepts a Missile Mid-Course [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-13-2013 09:01 标题: Aided by STSS, US Navy Intercepts a Missile Mid-Course 本帖最后由 choi 于 2-13-2013 09:02 编辑
My comment:
(a) The release states, "At 4:10 am EST, a unitary medium-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii."
Missile Defense Agency, under DOD, has an almost identical press release, which helpfully adds Hawaii Standard Time (HST): "At 11:10 pm HST (4:10 am EST)."
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haw ... utian_Standard_Time
(b) The significance is the successful tracking (done before) --which results in a successful HIT, which is FIRST--of the target missile by