The US Missile Defense Agency says it successfully launched two ground-based missile interceptors in rapid succession from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
It was a critical test of US missile defenses against adversaries such as North Korea.Pentagon identifies soldiers killed in AfghanistanThe goal was to create a scenario in which the US would fire multiple defensive missiles rapidly if an enemy had initiated a missile launch at the US.
As expected, it did not sense any adversary warhead, so it struck the next"most lethal object" it could identify, as designed.Rubio doesn't believe Kim Jong Un will 'ever' give up nukes"This was the first GBI salvo intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target, and it was a critical milestone," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, in a statement.
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