U.S. Lunch First Nation's Ballistic Missile

The United State military carry out a nation’s ballistic missile test to exercise the ground-based mid-course defense element on Tuesday .

The launching of the missile was scheduled to occur between 3p.m. and 7p.m.

According to Pentagon Spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Air Force’s 30th Space Wing and U.S. Northern Command are conducting the test.

Nevertheless, the test involved a threat representative intercontinental ballistic missile class target to be fired from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands and a ground-based interceptor from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 

United State President Donald Trump ordered a massive military strike on a Syrian air base on Thursday in retaliation for a “barbaric” chemical attack he blamed on President Bashar al-Assad. 

The missiles were fired from the USS Porter and the USS Ross, which belong to the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet and are located in the eastern Mediterranean.

This mark the first test event against an ICBM-class target for the ground-based mid-course defense system. And the Programme officials will evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test. 

However, Ballistic missile proliferation has continued to be a concern for the U.S. as additional countries acquired a greater number of ballistic missiles, Davis said. 

He added, those countries are increasing the range and incorporating ballistic missile defense countermeasures and making them more complex, survivable, reliable and accurate.