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Marine Corps’ Medium-Range Intercept Capability Prototype Takes Out Simultaneous Targets In Latest Test

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, July 8th, 2022

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Marine Corps’ Medium-Range Intercept Capability Prototype Takes Out Simultaneous Targets In Latest Test

Northrop Grumman's AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)

The Marine Corps announced Friday it recently conducted a live fire test of its Medium-Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) prototype where the system successfully took out several simultaneously-launched cruise missile surrogate targets. The latest prototype test on June 30 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was intended to validate MRIC’s primary subsystems’ integration and systems’ overall capability, according to the Marine Corps, as officials gather data to inform the eventual path forward for the program. “This demonstration proves that…

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