[MilCom] Heads Up- U.S. Navy defense exercise East coast

[Jason]

Wanted to give our milcom monitors on the east coasts a heads up
on this upcoming  exercise this will all depend on the weather
conditions calling for rain/snow the beginning of the week 


WALLOPS — The first live East Coast test of the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program will take place until Tuesday and involve a target launched from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility here.

A Navy cruiser and destroyer will detect and track the target with radar, develop fire control solutions, and simulate firing missiles.

No missiles will be fired from the ships because it is a tracking exercise.

The ballistic defense program is the sea-based mid-course component of a system designed to intercept and destroy short to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.

The Missile Defense Agency and the Navy cooperatively manage the Aegis ballistic defense program.

The exercise, called Atlantic Trident 2011, is being conducted by the commander of the U.S. Second Fleet.

It gives ships the oportunity to track a live target and simulate intercept of a short-range target missile in the midcourse phase of flight.