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Army Conducts Successful Flight Test of New Target Missile

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

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Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) yesterday said it successfully completed a flight test of the new Economical Target-1 (ET-1) at Eglin AFB, Fla. The ET-1 missile was launched at 8:00 a.m. EST from the Santa Rosa Test Site on Eglin into the broad ocean area within the test range. The launch demonstrated USASMDC/ARSTRAT's capability to provide low-cost targets to a variety of customers. The target missile's flight was successfully tracked by several range sensors and…

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