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Aegis BMD 4.0.1 Successfully Tracks And Engages Targets

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Friday, December 18th, 2009

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The second generation of Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, BMD 4.0.1, successfully detected, tracked and conducted simulated engagements against a variety of different ballistic missile targets during a series of tracking exercises in the Pacific, the company said. "The key feature of the new system is a new integrated signal processor designed to improve the system's discrimination capability to defeat sophisticated ballistic missiles and their countermeasures," Lockheed Martin said. During a series of four tests, the…

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