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Major Missile Defense Test Successful

December 5, 2008 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

The Missile Defense Agency reports that today's test of the Ground Based Interceptor was fully successful, in the most operationally realistic and demanding test to date.  This test required the interceptor to discriminate the target missile from deployed countermeasures. 

A target missile was launched from Kodiak Island, in Alaska, toward the United States.  Unlike previous tests, where the interceptor was launched from the primary fire control center at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, uniformed military personnel at the alternate fire control location of Fort Greely, Alaska launched the interceptor from its silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California.

The interceptor went to the point in space where the incoming target missile was travelling, destroying it successfully. 

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