The U.S. military today executed the first-ever ballistic missile defense test from Guam -- a technical achievement that validated a small step toward integrating legacy technology in support of fielding a new 360-degree defense of the American territory in the Western Pacific against advanced Chinese threats. On Dec. 10, the Missile Defense Agency conducted Flight Experiment Mission-02 (FEM-02), the first live-fire event in development of a Guam Defense System (GDS) that is U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s No. 1 materiel priority, according...
