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MDA Conducts First GBI Salvo Test

MDA Conducts First GBI Salvo Test
Two Ground-Based Interceptors (GBI) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on March 25, 2019, in the first salvo test of an ICBM target. The GBIs successfully intercepted a target launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a successful intercept test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) class target on March 25 in the first salvo test using two Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs). In this test, the first GBI, called GBI-Lead, destroyed the target reentry vehicle while the second GBI, called GBI-Trail, examined the resulting debris. When GBI-Trail did not find other reentry vehicles, it selected the next “most lethal object” it could find and attacked it as designed. This was called…

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