Naval Sea Systems Command:

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) personnel oversaw several critical steps leading to, and during, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)’s and Navy’s recent milestone success using a standard missile to destroy a mock Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

On Nov. 16, the MDA and Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG 113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer, fired a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA guided missile that successfully intercepted and eliminated a fake ICBM, during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii.

FTM-44, also known as Stellar Lancer, satisfies a congressional mandate to evaluate, before the end of 2020, whether an SM-3 Block IIA missile could defeat an ICBM threat…

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