I am pretty sure that everyone has seen this already, but I would like to mention the AMAZING accomplishment Wednsday of the U.S. Navy.

The U.S.S. Lake Erie knocked down a dying satellite with an SM-3 missle, rupturing the fuel cell WITHOUT using a warhead and causing the target to shatter into small pieces that will burn up on re-entry (and most importantly, burning off the toxic fuel cells contents)

This involved hiting a target roughly the size of a mini van, 130 miles above sea level, travelling at 17,000 mph...let that sink in..22 TIMES the speed of sound!

This is roughly like shooting a BB gun and hitting a baseball fired from a pitching machine about 3 miles away...

A round of Huzzahs for the crew of the Lake Erie and all those involved...

Can't help but think that Puller would have shot it down with an M-1 though..