Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced that its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system has tracked and engaged an intermediate range ballistic missile using data from a remote AN/TPY-2 radar.”
According to the firm, “the Aegis BMD system fired a Standard Missile using real-time information from a remote sensor prior to the shipboard SPY-1 radar acquiring the inbound ballistic missile.”
The test was held off the coast of Hawaii.
“The Lockheed Martin-led team has evolved Aegis from an anti-ship missile system to the basis for the U.S. approach to global missile defense, ” said Lisa Callahan, vice president of maritime ballistic missile defense programs. “With this test, Aegis BMD proves that it can expand the battlespace and destroy ballistic missile threats earlier in their trajectory than ever before.”
