The Aegis weapon control system and Standard Missile interceptors took down two missiles simultaneously, in an exercise called Stellar Daggers. Interceptors from the USS Benfold (DDG 65) took out a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) in its terminal phase of flight, and a low-flying anti-ship cruise missile, that were detected and tracked at the same time by the Aegis system. Traditionally, Aegis has been a system mainly taking out enemy threats in their midcourse of ballistic trajectory flights. A Standard Missile-2…
Successful Test: Aegis-SM System Takes Down Two Missiles At A Time; Terminal Phase Of Flight At Issue
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