Pentagon picks commercial option as NMD interceptor
The Pentagon said yesterday that it will buy commercial rockets as interceptors for its National Missile Defense system, rather than a derivative of the Minuteman III ICBM. The GBI will consist of two stages. The first will be the GEM-VN stage of the commercial Delta II rocket. The second will be an...
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