MDA acknowledges Aegis BMD flight test failure in test critical to EPAA Phase 3

By Jason Sherman / February 1, 2018 at 1:26 PM

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(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include comments by an MDA spokesman and a Raytheon spokewoman received subsequent to publication.) The Missile Defense Agency has conceded a major missile defense flight test yesterday in Hawaii failed, a setback for Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA development program and potentially the $600 million in orders for the new guided missile interceptor the Pentagon placed last summer. MDA in a Feb. 1 statement said the primary objective of the operational...

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MDA acknowledges Aegis BMD flight test failure in test critical to EPAA Phase 3

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