The United States successfully conducted the latest test of its ballistic missile defense system early this month, with the THAAD and the Aegis systems working together to intercept multiple targets as intended in a layered defense design, according to a congressional report.
The test was conducted in the vicinity of Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean on Nov. 1, the Congressional Research Service said in a report on the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense program, citing the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
In addition to the MDA, other participants included the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, the U.S. European Command and U.S. Pacific Command, it said.
"The test stressed the ability of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon systems to negate two ballistic missile threats while Aegis BMD (ballistic missile defense) simultaneously conducted an anti-air warfare operation," the MDA was quoted as saying.
"This was a complex operational test of the BMDs which required all elements to work together in an integrated layered defense design to detect, track, discriminate, engage and negate the ballistic missile threats," it said.
Assets involved in the test included a THAAD battery consisting of a THAAD Fire Control and Communications unit, THAAD launcher, and an AN/TPY-2 radar in terminal mode; a second AN/TPY-2 radar in forward-based mode; Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications; and the USS John Paul Jones Aegis BMD-configured ship with its onboard AN/SPY-1 radar, the agency said.
The test, which was formally designated "Flight Test Operational-02 Event 2a," began when an Air Force C-17 aircraft launched a short range air launch target around 11:05 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Oct. 31.
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
ANOTHER THAAD SUCCESSFUL TEST IN THE WAKE ISLAND OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC ALONG WITH THE AEGIS SYSTEM TO DEFEND THE WESTERN SHOULDER OF THE USA FROM ANY COMMUNISTS WHO DARE MAKE THE SURPRISE FIRST STRIKE ATTACK SIMILAR TO THE DAY THAT LIVES IN INFAMY PEARL HARBOR OF WW2–AS MULTIPLE THREAT MISSILE ATTACKS COUNTERED WITH MULTIPLE DEFENSIVE KILLS
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