Ground-Based Interceptor’s ‘Salvo Test’ Shifts Into 2019

The first operational intercept test of Boeing’s Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) has been pushed into calendar year 2019, according to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The “salvo test,” designated FTG-11, originally had been scheduled for fiscal 2017, but has since slipped into fiscal 2018 and...

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