ANDØYA, NORWAY – At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield (ASD/FS), the largest live-fire Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) exercise in 2021 led by U.S. Sixth Fleet and conducted by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), concluded June 2,,
Tracking data from the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) air-defence and command frigate (LCF) HNLMS has been used to consummate a launch on remote (LoR) exo-atmospheric ballistic missile engagement by a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IA interc.
The US Navy’s destroyer USS Paul Ignatius has conducted a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) “Launch on Remote” test using data from Thales’ SMART-L Naval Multi Mission (SMART-L MM/N) radar.
USS Paul Ignatius intercepted SM-3 surface-to-air missile using the SMART-L MM radar of De Zeven Provincien frigate from the Royal Netherlands Navy during At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield.