Editing Anti-ballistic missile (section)

==== Aster ====
[[File:HMS Daring-1.jpg|thumb|right|Royal Navy [[Type 45 destroyer]]s (''pictured''), and French Navy and Italian Navy {{sclass2|Horizon|frigate|5}} and [[FREMM multipurpose frigate|FREMM frigates]] operate [[Aster missile|Aster 30 missiles]]]]
{{Main|Aster (missile family)}}
The [[Aster (missile family)|Aster]] is a family of missiles jointly developed by [[France]] and [[Italy]]. The Aster 30 variants are capable of ballistic missile defense. An export customer, the [[United Kingdom]] also operates the Aster 30 Block 0.

On 18 October 2010, France announced a successful tactical ABM test of the Aster 30 missile<ref name="ATBM">{{cite web|url=http://defense-update.com/wp/20101126_samp_t.html |title=SAMP/T Successful on First European Missile Defense Intercept Test |date=26 November 2010 |publisher=Defense Update |access-date=26 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129040354/http://defense-update.com/wp/20101126_samp_t.html |archive-date=29 November 2010}}</ref> and on 1 December 2011 a successful interception of a Black Sparrow ballistic target missile.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ead-minerve.fr/WordPress3/?p=683 |title=Premier tir anti-balistique &#124; Blog de la DE |publisher=Ead-minerve.fr |access-date=11 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426071256/http://ead-minerve.fr/WordPress3/?p=683 |archive-date=26 April 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marianne2.fr/blogsecretdefense/m/Une-premiere-en-France-un-missile-intercepte-par-un-antimissile-Aster_a442.html?com |title=Une première en France : un missile intercepté par un antimissile Aster |language=fr |publisher=Marianne2.fr |access-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905155335/http://www.marianne2.fr/blogsecretdefense/m/Une-premiere-en-France-un-missile-intercepte-par-un-antimissile-Aster_a442.html?com |archive-date=5 September 2012}}</ref> The {{sclass2|Horizon|frigate|1}}s in [[French Navy|French]] and [[Italian Navy|Italian]] service, the [[Royal Navy]]'s [[Type 45 destroyer]]s, and the French and Italian [[FREMM multipurpose frigate|FREMM-class frigates]] are all armed with [[PAAMS]] (or variants of it) integrating Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles. France and Italy are developing a new variant, the Aster 30 Block II, which can destroy ballistic missiles up to a maximum range of {{cvt|3000|km}}. It will incorporate a [[kill vehicle]] warhead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/eurosatory/2016/06/14/france-italy-to-cooperate-in-development-of-aster-missile/ |title=France, Italy To Cooperate in Development of Aster Missile |last=Tran |first=Pierre |work=DefenseNews |date=14 June 2016 |access-date=18 June 2021 }}</ref>