The Navy successfully carried out a static hot fire test of the warhead that will be used in the service's Theater Wide missile defense system, according to an announcement issued today. The kinetic warhead is being developed for use with the new Standard Missile-3, the Navy said. The Bush administration has big plans for the Navy system, which has been renamed the sea-based element of midcourse missile defense. In its recently completed fiscal year 2002 defense budget request, the Pentagon...
