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MDA Tests THAAD And Patriot Interoperability

Monday, April 23rd, 2018

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Army jointly successfully tested a missile defense tracking exercise the week of April 1 to demonstrate the interoperability between the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot missile defense systems.The April 6 test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., was a simulated engagement of a live short-range Lynx missile target, called Flight Test Other (FTX)-35. The Lynx was launched from the missile range and was subsequently detected and tracked by THAAD’s Army-Navy/Transportable Surveillance…

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