The Missile Defense Agency, in the "most complex" missile defense flight test to date, is claiming partial success only in an attempted intercept of two short-range ballistic missile targets during the terminal phase -- a simulated last-line-of-defense for an aircraft carrier -- marking a second consecutive qualified result for the Standard Missile-6 Dual II variant since May. On July 24, MDA and the Navy conducted Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33 (FTM-33) in waters northwest of Hawaii, the agency announced...
