Japanese Aegis test proves out infrared missile tracker

Japan's defense research organization successfully conducted the second airborne test of its infrared (IR) missile detection and tracking system during the Dec. 17 interception of a ballistic missile target by the Aegis destroyer Kongo. The Advanced Infrared Ballistic-missile Observation Sensor...

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