Aug 18, 2021A Naval strike missile streaks out to sea before striking a naval target ship, Aug. 15, 2021, aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii. The missile flew more than 100 nautical miles before finding its mark. (Lance Cpl. Dillon Buck/Marine Corps)Marines from 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii did nearly everything but pull the trigger on the Corps’ newest ship-killing missile this past weekend But they won’t get to take this missile home with them That’ll be artillery Marines from 11th Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton who are scheduled to receive the Navy-Marine expeditionary ship interdiction system program manager for long-range fires at Marine Corps Systems Command Corps to fire ship-sinking missile in Pacific as ‘demonstration of force’Marines will fire a Naval Strike Missile from a Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) fires vehicle Sunday to sink a Navy hull in the Pacific.By Philip AtheyMcPherson and Lt rockets and artillery capabilities integration officer Combat Development and Integration spoke with media by phone about the weekend launch from Hawaii on Tuesday Marines did the first-ever load/offload of the system onto a Marine-flown C-130 out of VMGR-352 and landing craft air cushion They also passed data for the successful firing But since the system was still under testing Systems Command staff did the actual shoot While McPherson and Collins couldn’t share too many details they did confirm that the missiles traveled “in excess of 100 nautical miles.” And not in a straight line A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher deploys into position aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands The NMESIS and its Naval Strike Missiles participated in a live-fire exercise Nick Mannweiler/Marine Corps)McPherson explained that one of the key features of the system is to allow for waypoint programming that way the missile can operate in congested airspace various terrain features and even friendly forces The Raytheon-made NSM carries a 500-pound warhead Each of the two fires from land struck the decommissioned hull of the former guided missile frigate Ingraham off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i at the Pacific Missile Range Facility The Ingraham saw service from 1987 to 2015 and was involved in the 1991 response to the Mount Pinatubo eruption on Luzon also was involved in a provocation by high-speed Iranian boats approaching them in the Persian Gulf in 2008 according to Naval History and Heritage Command joint forces conduct a coordinated multi-domain long-range maritime strikes in the Hawaiian Islands Operating Area during a sinking exercise on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Ingraham (FFG 61) *Weapons engagement information provided by public affairs officers from U.S the largest of its kind in more than 70 years spreads out across 17 time zones and has more than 25,000 participants all three Marine expeditionary forces and five numbered fleets The fire fit within the exercise but wasn’t part of any opposition force “Our next stage is to get it more habitually in the hands of Marines,” McPherson said That means cannon-cockers with the 11th Marine Regiment will be the ones to help develop tactics techniques and procedures that the rest of the fires field will likely follow as this system hits the fleet in the next few years The NMESIS is a combination of existing technologies: the Naval strike missile and the remotely operated ground unit for expeditionary vehicle which basically is a remote-control joint light tactical vehicle 12th Marines escort a Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher vehicle ashore aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands The Marines of 1/12 struck a naval target ship Aug which flew 100 nautical miles away before finding their mark Luke Cohen/Marine Corps)McPherson and Collins said that the data from the fires by request from officials at Marine Corps Forces Pacific will help push the program forward The NMESIS program kicked off slightly more than two years ago in response to Marine Corps Commandant Gen David Berger’s push to give the Marines an anti-ship missile capability That tool fits into the larger initiative that Berger has laid out in which Marines will operate in small teams aboard and off the ship to thwart peer navies such as China by denying sea lane access and striking unseen at their vessels *Correction: The article has been changed to note that the C-130 aircraft was flown by Marines out of a Marine Corps unit government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation The scene of the shooting was a Kingdom Hall, next to a car repair shop in the Gross Borstel district, a few miles from Hamburg city centre Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. 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Read our Privacy notice A man suspected of going on a killing spree in Hamburg was a former Jehovah’s Witness Police said seven people were killed – which officials said includes an unborn baby – inside a Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses while eight were hurt the state interior minister Andy Grote told a briefing on Friday A quick police intervention prevented more people from being killed Police spokesman Holger Vehren said officers were alerted to the shooting at about 9.15pm and arrived on the scene quickly After officers arrived and found people with apparent gunshot wounds on the ground floor they heard a shot from an upper floor and found a fatally wounded person upstairs who may have been the gunman Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of the reported shooting at a church centre in Hamburg We’ll be following all the latest details live Multiple people have died and several others are injured after a shooting in a church in Hamburg The Hamburg city government said the shooting took place at a Jehovah’s Witness church in the Gross Borstel district on Thursday evening “My deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” Hamburg mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on Twitter in German on Thursday “The emergency services are working flat out to track down the perpetrator(s) and to clarify the background.” Get all the details in our breaking news story Police are in the process of investigating a shooting that claimed multiple lives at a Hamburg church centre where local officials say they haven’t identified a motive behind the violence Witnesses are beginning to recount what happened on Thursday evening during a shooting at a church centre in Hamburg “It was about four firing periods. During these periods, several shots were always fired, approximately 20 seconds to one minute apart,” said Lara Bauch, 23, according to The Guardian “I then looked further out of the window and saw a person running hectically from the ground floor to the first floor at the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” she added Police have discovered the body of an individual who may be responsible for tonight’s shooting “We found a lifeless person in a community center in #GroßBorstel who we believe could be a perpetrator. In order to rule out the involvement of other perpetrators, we carry out checks and search extensively,” the Hamburg police department wrote on Twitter in German on Thursday Hamburg is in shock after at least six people were killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness centre on Thursday evening “God, tonight we’re shattered, shocked,” the Archdiocese of Hamburg wrote on Twitter on Thursday in German Tonight we are with those whose lives have changed in the blink of an eye.” A shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg Jehovah’s Witnesses are a minority in Germany The shooting on Thursday in a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg marks a relative rarity in Germany Compared to the United States, which often has more than one mass shooting per day the country has experienced some shootings Here’s more information on those incidents “My deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” Hamburg mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on Twitter in German on Thursday. “The emergency services are working flat out to track down the perpetrator(s) and to clarify the background.” Get all the details in our breaking news report. “My deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” Hamburg mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on Twitter in German on Thursday “It was about four firing periods. During these periods, several shots were always fired, approximately 20 seconds to one minute apart,” said Lara Bauch, 23, according to The Guardian “God, tonight we’re shattered, shocked,” the Archdiocese of Hamburg wrote on Twitter on Thursday in German A German news headline reading ‘Bloodbath in Church!’ about a shooting on 9 March in the city of Hamburg Compared to the United States, which often has more than one mass shooting per day “My deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” Hamburg mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on Twitter in German on Thursday. “The emergency services are working flat out to track down the perpetrator(s) and to clarify the background.” Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies A Russian war plane accidentally discharged a weapon that exploded in the Russian city of Belgorod causing an explosion and injuring several people “At around 22:15 Moscow time on April 20, when a Su-34 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces was performing a flight above the city of Belgorod, an emergency release of an air ordnance occurred,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement to TASS which didn’t specify the weapon that caused the damage The Sukhoi Su-34 is a supersonic fighter-bomber jet Belgorod’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said earlier on Telegram that there had been an explosion in the center of the city In an update Friday morning Gladkov added that three people had been hurt though their injuries weren’t life-threatening The Belgorod region, which is about an hour’s drive from the Ukrainian city Kharkiv, has been hit by rockets several times since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. China is the largest foreign investor in Hungary — and the government wants more. Kyiv says the border blockade is hurting its economy and taxes, but Polish truckers claim they face discrimination in Ukraine. Russian steel maker NLMK is a key supplier to the Czech auto industry, which accounts for around 10 percent of the country’s GDP. US carmaker is China’s biggest exporter but it’s been excluded from the probe, meaning it could be hit by duties based on state aid doled out to its competitors. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Inhabitants of Copenhagen neighbourhood tear down market stalls selling hash after suspected dealer shoots two police officers Residents of the self-proclaimed autonomous Christiania neighbourhood in Copenhagen have torn down market stalls selling hash after a man shot two police officers and a bystander. One of the officers is in a critical condition and the other officer and the bystander are stable after the incident on Wednesday, police said. The 25-year-old gunman, a suspected drug dealer, fled the scene and was later injured in a shootout with police south of the city. He died at Copenhagen university hospital. Read moreThe violence in Christiania marks an escalation in clashes between police and people selling hash in the neighbourhood, a largely self-governing enclave created when hippies occupied abandoned barracks in 1971 On Friday morning some of Christiania’s 1,000 inhabitants were pictured on Denmark’s TV 2 station using saws cordless drills and crowbars to dismantle drug stalls on “Pusher Street” said: “It is important that we do this today with the wounded police officer in our thoughts But we cannot guarantee that they won’t pop up again Many Christiania residents have liberal attitudes toward drugs but are uncomfortable with the presence of criminal gangs running the hash industry.