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THAAD Missile Defense System Intercepts Targets In IOT&E Flight Test

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Army said they conducted a flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system yesterday, detecting, tracking and intercepting two separate targets in the system’s first Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E). Lockheed Martin [LMT] is the prime contractor for the THAAD system. The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency (OTA) with support from MDA conducted FTT-12, the operational test of the THAAD Element of the BMDS MDA is…

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