'Is US testing anti-satellite missile?'

Just a week after the US announced that it would use a missile to shoot down an out of control spy satellite hurtling towards earth, Russia has accused the US of using a plan to shoot down a broken spy satellite as a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon.
A statement by the Russian Defence ministry said:"Speculations about the danger of the satellite hide preparations for the classical testing of an anti-satellite weapon. Such testing essentially means the creation of a new type of strategic weapons. The US plans to test its anti-missile defence system's capability to destroy other countries' satellites."
The Russian defence ministry argued that various countries' spacecraft had crashed to Earth in the past, and many countries used toxic fuel in spacecraft, but this had never before merited such "extraordinary measures".
The US says that the satellite lost power and communications shortly after it was launched in December 2006 and is now uncontrollable.
The modus operandi to be adopted by the US to shoot down the out of control spy satellite is as follows:
-- Three modified SM-3 missiles have already been dispatched on board Aegis ships somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
-- The ships would fire a missile, intercepting the satellite just above the atmosphere. That way, they have more control over the falling debris.
-- Once the satellite is hit, officials hope 50 percent of the debris will come to Earth in the first two orbits and the rest will fall later.