MDA Preparing Key Guam Defense Test, Finalizing Radar Tests

An SM-3 Block IIA missile is fired during a 2018 Missile Defense Agency test.

Credit: Missile Defense Agency
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will soon deliver new radars to Guam ahead of planned large-scale tests of its new ballistic missile defense architecture on the island scheduled for year’s end. MDA is using the AN/TPY-6 radars originally planned for the now-canceled Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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