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MDA Director Reports F-35 Could Support Missile Defense by 2025

4/13/2018

 
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The military has been testing the concept of incorporating the Joint Strike Fighter into the missile defense “detect, track and kill” chain for the past several years, but on April 11, Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves told a Senate subcommittee that the MDA has a targeted capability date.

There have been several successful proof-of-concept tests in the past. “In 2014, an F-35 infrared sensor installed on a surrogate aircraft successfully tracked a launch and transmitted tracking data over the military’s standard Link-16 network,” says an article at Breaking Defense.

“In 2016, an actual Marine Corps F-35B detected and tracked a missile, then passed the data over the Navy’s NIFC-CA network to the Aegis missile defense system, which shot the threat down.” Given the anticipated presence of thousands of F-35s supporting U.S. and allied forces in future theaters, linking their sensor and potential kinetic capabilities to the MDA kill chain seems a logical development. 

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