The Missile Defense Agency has scrapped plans to conduct a major operational test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System originally scheduled for last fall and will instead fold the objective of that now-cancelled event into a "major test" of the system slated for later this year. Flight Test Standard Missile (FTM)-26, which was lined up for late October, was to assess a new version of Aegis BMD designed to give the Navy the ability to simultaneously conduct air and...
