Japan-U.S. test to shoot down ballistic missile fails

Uh-oh.

Well, look at it this way. The test in February was a success but this time was a fail.

You've got a 50-50 chance folks! Being a betting man, I like them odds.

Of course, if the first one does fail, I hope they got another one of them rockets up their sleeves to try again, or is it if the first one fails, that's all she wrote? Nothing in the budget for one more?

What happened to the test missile?

Perhaps it may be more prudent to invest in some good old fashioned American advice in these matters!

"...Duck and cover!"

Well only the second test, run a few hundred more tests if they aren't overly expensive to fine tune this to get closer to 100% success. NK is testing their nukes and missiles almost weekly now, so the US and Japanese military should at least be matching them

pay money, doesn't work. where is that damn one year guarantee? want my tax money back.

Using an conventional anti ballistic missile to intecept an incoming ballistic missile is far risky and costly than using nuclear armed ballistic missiles as  a tool of nuclear deterrances. That system has no 100% gurantee of success interception  when actual combat take place!  This is a very good news for those hostile neighours of Japan. Keep trying in that direction, Japan !

Weather Good news or bad News Any Failure comes with learning a very expensive way is for failure when needed .

If one was used near Japan would the result of the combined explosion be greater than the device weather nuclear or conventional missile and the fallout continue towards the north coast of japan.

Only way to get it right is to test

If ya don't test, you're never gonna get it right

In future wars, the ability to stop or intercept large numbers of incoming missiles will be crucial to victory and the survival of the populace.

Japan needs to up its game and the US too.

@Ron, the interceptor missile is kinetic based, meaning that it doesn't explode, it has to physically hit the target missile (hence the rather average intercept rate). So although the target missile payload would fall somewhere, the intercept wouldn't actually cause a nuclear reaction, only a small explosion from ignition of any remaining missile fuel.

I think dropping a bomb on NK's develop site is cheaper.

This sort of interceptor is only to deal with small numbers of attack missiles.

Hitting something traveling at 6Kmps is hard. They aren't 50/50 in their testing. More like 2/19.

So the world holds many thousands of nukes that can strike targets thousands of miles away, but no one has the ability to stop one? All sword and no shield? Come on, people. Common sense...

Japan should old stupid American tech.and go for russian missle defense system.s400 will do nicely.

Japan should old stupid American tech.and go for russian missle defense system.s400 will do nicely.

S-400 is not an anti-missile defense system - it's an anti-aircraft defense system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_missile_system

Russia's current anti-ballistic missile system is over 20 years old

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-135_anti-ballistic_missile_system