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Air Force

Missile Defense Agency completes unprecedented homeland defense test

November 18, 2020

As part of a historic Missile Defense Agency demonstration and for the first time ever, an intercontinental ballistic missile target was intercepted and destroyed outside Earth’s atmosphere by an advanced SM-3® Block IIA ballistic missile defense […]

Air Force

Next-gen Standard Missile-3 Completes First Intercept Test

February 10, 2017

The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed the first successful intercept flight test of a Raytheon Company Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA, a defensive weapon designed to defeat short- to intermediate-range ballistic […]