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MDA Completes Second SM-6 Medium Range Missile Intercept Test

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MDA Completes Second SM-6 Medium Range Missile Intercept Test
An SM-6 is launched from the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) during Flight Test Standard Missile-27 Event 2 (FTM-27 E2) to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile (MBRB) target in 2017. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted its second successful missile defense flight and intercept test of a Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) against a medium-range ballistic missile (MBRB) off the coast of Hawaii on Aug. 29, the agency said Wednesday.During the test, the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), a Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aegis Baseline 9.1 combat system, detected and tracked a target missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, with its…

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