Defense News:
WASHINGTON – The director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency is “confident” the recent missile intercept test failure does not represent a fundamentally fatal flaw in the SM-3 Blk IIA system, and believes the U.S. will actually benefit from the failure in the long term.
MDA director Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves declined to get ahead of a formal review into what caused the intercept failure, stressing the need to let the investigation finish. But from the data gathered during the test, the missile apparently failed in “an area where it has worked at least 9 times out of 10, so we are trying to find out what happened,” he added…
