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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, U.S. Northern Command, and elements of the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s 30th, 50th, and 460th Space Wings, conducted a successful test today against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) class target. This test was the first salvo engagement of a threat-representative ICBM target by two Ground Based Interceptors (GBI), which were designated GBI-Lead, and GBI-Trail for the test. The GBI-Lead destroyed the reentry vehicle, as it was designed to do. The GBI-Trail then looked at the resulting debris and remaining objects, and, not finding any other reentry vehicles, selected the next ‘most lethal object’ it could identify, and struck that, precisely as it was designed to do.
| Date Taken: | 03.25.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 03.25.2019 22:33 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 667763 |
| VIRIN: | 190325-D-AD122-007 |
| PIN: | 199933 |
| Filename: | DOD_106572959 |
| Length: | 00:02:20 |
| Location: | US |
| Downloads: | 239 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 239 |
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