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Successful GMD Test

March 15, 2002 :: Department of Defense :: News

The Missile Defense Agency reports the fourth successful test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Segment, in the most complex missile defense test to date. At 9:11pm Saturday, a modified Minuteman ICBM was launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, fired out into the Pacific. Twenty minutes later, a prototype interceptor was launched from the Ronald Reagan missile site on the Marshall Islands, some 4,800 miles away. The interceptor destroyed the missile in midcourse at 9:40, over 140 miles above the earth.
        Like the sea-based test of January 25, this test also used an exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), destroying the target warhead by impact alone. The test demonstrated the complete integration of space- and ground-based sensors and radars, including a prototype of the X-band radar.

 

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