Pentagon Declares It's Latest Ballistic Missile Defense Test A Success

Ground-based Midcourse Defense launch. (Image from boeing.com)

Pentagon Says Missile Defense System Hit Target in Test -- Bloomberg

The Pentagon said its $34 billion ground-based system to defend the continental U.S. successfully intercepted a dummy incoming missile for the first time since 2008.

The test, using a conventional warhead made by Raytheon Co. (RTN), took place today over the Pacific, the Defense Department said in an e-mailed statement. The interceptor missile made by Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) was fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Boeing Co. (BA) manages the ground-based missile defense program.

“This is a very important step in our continuing efforts to improve and increase the reliability of our homeland ballistic missile defense system,” Vice Admiral James Syring, director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said in the statement.

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