Welcome Home CVW-1, VFA-11, VFA-136, VFA-211 and SEAOPDET VOLUME 52 NO. 44
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
SERVING NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA
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DAM NECK ANNEX
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NALF FENTRESS
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MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY AT THE ZOO
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U.S. Navy photo
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) launches a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) as apart of a joint ballistic missile defense exercise.
Ballistic Missile Defense System succesfully conducts largest missile defense flight test in history U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully conducted the largest, most complex missile defense flight test ever attempted Oct. 24. MDA, Soldiers from the 94th and 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense
Command (AAMDC); Sailors aboard USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62); and Airmen from the 613th Air and Space Operations Center conducted the test, resulting in the simultaneous engagement of five ballistic missile and cruise missile targets. An integrated air and ballistic missile defense architecture used mul-
tiple sensors and missile defense systems to engage multiple targets at the same time. All targets were successfully launched and initial indications are that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system successfully intercepted its first medium-range ballistic target in history, and Patriot Advanced Capa-
bility-3 (PAC-3) simultaneously destroyed a short-range ballistic missile and a low flying cruise missile target over water. The live-fire demonstration, conducted at U.S.Army Kwajalein Atoll/ Reagan Test Site, Hickam Air Force — See Missile, Page 6