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Date posted: 12/10/2008*
Raytheon kill vehicle and radars key to ballistic missile intercept
Raytheon Company components played key roles in the destruction of a ballistic missile target during the latest flight test of the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. This was the eighth intercept for the GMD system.
During the Dec. 5 test, a Raytheon-built Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle intercepted a ballistic missile target in space over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The EKV detected, tracked and discriminated the target while communicating with ground sensors.
In the first demonstration of GMD integrated performance, Raytheon’s AN/TPY-2 X-Band Radar acquired the target shortly after lift off. Operating in forward-based mode from Juneau, Alaska, the radar provided track updates to MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Raytheon’s Upgraded Early Warning Radar, at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., tracked the target during its flight downrange. Raytheon’s X-Band Radar, deployed aboard the Sea-based X-band radar, actively participated by tracking, discriminating and assessing the target.
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