The Missile Defense Agency and US Navy successfully intercepted a target missile during its last few seconds of flight using a sea-based missile—the first such occurrence. Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie detected the short-range target missile and directed a Standard Missile-2 interceptor to the target, completely destroying the target.
Northrop Grumman test fired its newest solid rocket motor Dec. 4, part of an internally funded effort to rapidly design and build SRMs using advanced manufacturing techniques.
