August 24, 2010 :: UPI :: News
The MDA has conducted a full system test of America's ballistic missile defenses. Using simulated scenarios (over 2,500 of them), the MDA (along with Northrop Grumman, the top private partner at the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center) mimicked 36 different possible attacks.
The BMD systems involved in the simulated tests included: space-based sensors; mobile ground-based patriot interceptors; THAAD; sea-based Aegis interceptors; GBIs in Alaska & California; and Lockheed's Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications system.
Any effective national ballistic missile defense system will in large part be dependent on the continued testing and refinement of the system's total integrated functionality. True global coverage will depend on a sophisticated interweaving of software and floating or ground-based hardware, knit together by command and control centers like NORAD and far-flung high powered X-band radars like the one deployed in Israel and the one slated for deployment in Turkey or Bulgaria. (Article)
» X-Band Installation in Turkey or Bulgaria
