By Ann Roosevelt Missile Defense Agency (MDA) late Tuesday announced the successful completion of a simultaneous interception of two ballistic missile targets for its sea-based anti-missile Aegis BMD system. Conducted jointly with the Navy, this was MDA's latest hit-to-kill intercept flight test conducted jointly off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Aegis BMD is designed to intercept and destroy short to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats. For the first time, the operationally realistic test involved two unitary targets, where the warheads did…
MDA Declares Successful Dual Intercept In Navy Aegis BMD Test
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