Aegis BMD to participate in Patriot missile testing

By Connie Lee / January 30, 2017 at 3:00 PM
The Army and the Missile Defense Agency will include the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System in Patriot missile testing in order to see how the systems work together, according to the Pentagon's former director of operational test and evaluation. In his annual report for fiscal year 2016, J. Michael Gilmore states that the Army and MDA plan to incorporate the Aegis BMD into the final operational test for Patriot, which is scheduled for FY-17. The report states that the...

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