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Navy To Start Receiving New Standard Missile-3 Interceptor Variant By Late 2018

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, March 15th, 2017

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Navy To Start Receiving New Standard Missile-3 Interceptor Variant By Late 2018

A SM-3 1B launching off a Navy cruiser in Oct. 2013. Photo: Missile Defense Agency.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to begin delivering the new Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor to the U.S. Navy by the end of calendar year 2018, a program official said March 15.“Our focus right now is getting through the IIA development, getting the IIA into production,” said Navy Rear Adm. Johnny Wolfe, program executive for Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, who spoke at a Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance event on Capitol Hill.The Block IIA is a longer-range variant…

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