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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – One of the biggest lessons learned is you can get better results from zombie launches if you boost their performance.
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Technical Center’s Test Execution Support Division, or TESD, received results from its recent launch of a Black Dagger/Boosted Zombie Target, or BZT, from McGregor Range at Fort Bliss, Texas, into White Sands Missile Range, or WSMR, New Mexico, during a risk reduction flight, or RRF, June 7.
“We learned several important things from this particular risk reduction flight,” said Cain Crouch, TESD general engineer and launch target test director. “First and foremost, we proved that we could accurately predict the trajectory of the missile and basically make it land where it was intended. Second, we intentionally initiated the Flight Termination System, which demonstrated that the FTS would disable the missile in flight, which is important for missile flight safety purposes.
