Missile Defense Agency delays new terrestrial interceptor

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has delayed the initial fielding of the terrestrial version of the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) by two years because it now appears that developing the anti-missile system will be more technologically challenging than originally thought, according to a Defense...

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