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Missile Defense Agency Tests GMD Ability to Engage More Rapidly

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Missile Defense Agency Tests GMD Ability to Engage More Rapidly
An upgraded Ground Based Interceptor with a Capability Enhanced-II Block 1 Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) is launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. on Dec. 11 during Flight Test Ground-based Midcourse Defense Weapon System-12, or FTG-12 (Photo on MDA Website)

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Boeing [BA] said that a Dec. 11 test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) demonstrated the possibility of engaging adversary ballistic missiles more rapidly. The test, using an upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) with a Capability Enhanced-II Block 1 Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), was the first with "a three-stage GBI operating in two-stage mode, which means the third stage was commanded not to ignite and allowed earlier release of the kill vehicle, providing closer range…

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