Army demonstrates potential of missile defense system to provide targeting for offensive fires

By Jason Sherman / November 15, 2022 at 5:55 PM
The Army last month experimented with a potential revolutionary new capability by using a missile defense system to spot a ground threat in a simulated setting and digitally pass the targeting information to a long-range strike system which then executed an attack against the ground target. During Project Convergence 22, the Army linked separate command-and-control systems that are today used for either missile defense or offensive missile strikes and utilized special software developed by Northrop Grumman to link the Integrated...

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