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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

US Validates Radar Capabilities Against Ballistic Missiles with Countermeasures and Decoys

Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance ( www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org), has gone on record about the significance of the missile defense test on Friday, July 18th, 2008 by declaring that the system is capable of using a variety of sensors to detect countermeasures and decoys.

"Last Friday evening in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the United States for the first time, successfully integrated and validated four diverse tracking and discriminatory sensor radars against a three stage, long range ballistic missile dispersing countermeasures and decoys over the Pacific Ocean.

The test integrated the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) in the Pacific, the Aegis Destroyer USS Milius (DD-79) with its SPY -1 radar in the northern pacific, the mobile forward based X-band Radar (AN/TPY-2 X-band) located in Juneau, Alaska and an upgraded early warning Radar located at the Beale AFB near Yuba City, California.

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