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MDA Plans Nine New Kill Vehicle Interceptors, Explains Focus and Budget Request

Wednesday, June 7th, 2017

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MDA Plans Nine New Kill Vehicle Interceptors, Explains Focus and Budget Request

A Missile Defense Agency Ground-Based Interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. as part of Flight Test Ground-Based Interceptor (FTG)-15. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress on Wednesday the agency plans to begin deliveries this year of nine new Ground-Based Interceptors (GBIs) including the newly tested kill vehicles.Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the MDA, said after the recent successful FTG-15 intercept flight test, the new CE-II Block 1 Exo-atmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) and Configuration 2 (C2) three-stage booster will be part of this latest GBI delivery. Syring explained this in his prepared statement to a…

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