Air Force Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering III, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director, announced today it has successfully completed an important exercise and flight test involving the launch of an improved ground-based interceptor missile designed to protect the United States against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack.
The interceptor missile was launched at 10:39 am PDT (1: 39 pm EDT) from the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site, located at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. For this exercise, a threat-representative target missile was launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Kodiak, Alaska.
Although not a primary objective for the data collection flight test, an intercept of the target warhead was achieved.
Since the intercept was not a primary objective of the test flight, we’ll have to wait and see if the test was really successful. Nevertheless, the fact that an intercept occurred indicates that the basic engineering problems are pretty well under control.
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