PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 1, 2008) A Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) enroute to an intercept over an open ocean area northwest of Kauai as part of Pacific Blitz 08.
The SM-3 successfully collided with a ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Test Facility at Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.
U.S. Navy photo (Released)
