Flight Test FTM 04-2b - 11/17/05

This test involved for the first time a "separating" target, meaning that the target warhead separated from its booster rocket requiring the interceptor to distinguish between the body of the missile and the actual warhead. The interceptor missile was launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). The medium-range target was intercepted more than 100 miles in space above the Pacific Ocean and 375 miles northwest of Kauai. US Missile Defense Agency

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• MDA
• BMDS
• Aegis
• SM-3
• missile defense
• intercept
• flight test