A US guided missile destroyer deployed with the Aegis system successfully destroyed four missiles in separate tests of the ballistic missile defense system, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said on Monday.
“The flight test… demonstrated successful intercepts of short-range ballistic missile and cruise missile targets by the USS [United States Ship] John Paul Jones,” the MDA stated.
Using the Aegis ballistic missile defense system, the Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer tracked and destroyed incoming ballistic missile threats in four separate events during tests in Hawaii.
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