Missile Defense Agency Outlines BMD Flight Tests For Remainder Of FY-11

摘要

The Missile Defense Agency plans to hold three flight tests during the remaining months of fiscal year 2011, according to officials and documents. MDA's FY-12 budget overview document lists the upcoming tests. Agency spokesman Rick Lehner provided sister publication Inside Missile Defense with the approximate dates for each test. The exact dates are classified until a Notice to Airmen is issued, he said. Sometime between July and September, MDA plans to conduct an intercept test of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system where two THAAD interceptors will attempt to engage two short-range ballistic missile targets, Lehner wrote.