The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and its partners have successfully conducted the first flight of the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB) designed to provide a common platform for hypersonic experiments. According to San Diego-based company Kratos the HTB was Kratos’s…
The US Navy destroyer USS Preble has successfully completed Flight Test Aegis Weapon System-32 (FTM-32), using the Aegis Baseline 9 Combat System to successfully intercept a Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) target using SM-6 Dual II Software Upgrade. Supported by…
The US Department of Defense has launched five missile tracking satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The satellites, designed and built by L3Harris Technologies, form part of the US Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor…
The US Missile Defense Agency’s upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) has intercepted an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) in a live-fire test at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The test was conducted in cooperation with US Northern Command, the US…