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Greaves Sees F-35 Helping Missile Defense, Hypersonic Threat Coming From Iran And North Korea

Friday, April 13th, 2018

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Greaves Sees F-35 Helping Missile Defense, Hypersonic Threat Coming From Iran And North Korea

Lt. Gen Samuel Greaves, director of the Missile Defense Agency. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress last week that he sees F-35 aircraft helping aid missile defense activities in the six to seven-year timeframe, albeit mostly for sensor tracking.Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves said he sees deployed systems like the F-35 and its distributed aperture system (DAS), “if not a gamechanger, a significant contributor to future ballistic missile defense capability.”Greaves said that in discussions with Under Secretary of Defense…

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