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>>rntn+(OP)
Silly clickbait title, but newsworthy all the same. This looks like the first instance of a successful ballistic missile interception in battle and not a test. I feel a chill because you never know what payload a ballistic missile is carrying until it reaches its target. Using them in war is a scary precedent.

>>dougmw+45
using guided ballistic missiles in war is indeed a scary precedent, but as the article explains, it is a precedent that was set 81 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket and in particular iraq launched lots of guided ballistic missiles into israel in the first gulf war

the newsworthy part is not the ballistic missile launch but the interception in space, where velocity is lowest but maneuvering is most difficult

though to me the biggest news was that yemen's houthi rebels have ballistic missiles now