Test Boosts Missile Tracking Radars

by Martin Sieff Washington (UPI) Jul 22, 2008 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency Friday carried out what it described as a successful systems test to track an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with countermeasures with several advanced radars. The target ICBM was fired from Kodiak, Alaska, and was then located and monitored by different tracking systems on land, at sea and on orbiting satellites. They then "provided data to the missile defense system's Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications -- C2BMC -- system, and also to the Ground-based Mid-course Defense fire control system in Colorado Springs, Colo., to support a simulated interceptor missile engagement," the MDA said in a statement Friday. The MDA said that among the systems involved were a movable AN/TPY-2 X-band radar based in Juneau, Alaska; a... [read full story]