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Latest News
29 DEC 08 |
Missile Defense Agency Successfully Completes Ground Test for Data Collection to Improve Modeling and Simulation (pdf) The GTF-03b test event was a path-finding System-level Post-Flight Reconstruction (SPFR) to provide data in support of the validation of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) models and simulations. |
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5 DEC 08 |
Missile Defense Flight Test Results in Successful Intercept (pdf) The interceptor's exoatmospheric kill vehicle was carried into the target's predicted trajectory in space, maneuvered to the target, performed discrimination, and intercepted the threat warhead. [Photos] [Video] |
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3 DEC 08 |
Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test (pdf) Objectives of the test included having the MKV-L hover under its own power and prove its capability to recognize and track a surrogate target in a flight environment. [Video] |
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26 NOV 08 |
ABL Successfully Fires Complete Weapon System From Aircraft (pdf) To complete this final milestone for 2008, the Airborne Laser's chemical oxygen-iodine laser was fired through the beam control/fire control optical system that directs and shapes the beam before exiting the aircraft |
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21 NOV 08 |
Missile Defense Agency completes change of responsibility ceremony (pdf) Air Force Lt Gen Henry A. "Trey" Obering III turned over responsibility for the agency to Army LTG Patrick J. O'Reilly as the eighth director of the Missile Defense Agency |
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RSS FeedsIt is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as is technologically possible an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or deliberate) with funding subject to the annual authorization of appropriations and the annual appropriation of funds for National Missile Defense.
— National Missile Defense
Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-38)