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MDA And Army Conduct Successful THAAD/Patriot Intercept Test

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

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MDA And Army Conduct Successful THAAD/Patriot Intercept Test

A PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missile test is conducted at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. as part of a flight test for the U.S. Army in 2016. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Army conducted a successful interoperability intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot missile defense weapon systems on Oct. 1. The test, called Flight Test Patriot Weapon System (FTP)-27, consisted of one event earlier in the year and another this week, both at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The most recent part entailed having the THAAD Army-Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control Model 2 (AN/TPY-2) radar detect and track…

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