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Missile Defense

Missile Defense Agency Scores Second Intercept With Sea Based Terminal System

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

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Missile Defense Agency Scores Second Intercept With Sea Based Terminal System

A Standard Missile-6 interceptor is launched during a Dec. 14, 2016, missile defense test in the Pacific. (Photo courtesy of Missile Defense Agency)

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said its new Sea Based Terminal (SBT) system achieved its second ballistic missile intercept during a Dec. 14 test over the Pacific Ocean.During the test, the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), a Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aegis combat system, fired a salvo of two Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) interceptors in immediate succession against a medium-range ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.…

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