A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is launched from Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii, during Flight Test Other-23 (FTX-23) on February 8, 2024. It goes on to intercept a Medium Range Ballistic Missile target. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Navy completed “one of the most complicated” missile defense discrimination and intercept missions so far against a ballistic missile target with countermeasures, the Defense Department said.
This test, called Flight…