By Dave Ahearn The Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) system aced a test Friday against a long-range ballistic missile target, just as Congress is poised to decide the financial fate of plans to extend the GMD system to Europe. In the test, a target missile was sent aloft from the Kodiak Launch Complex at Kodiak, Alaska, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reported. Then a GMD interceptor took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The test involved an operationally…
GMD Missile Defense System Succeeds In Test
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