The missile battery that is now operational is in the city of Adana.
But John Pike, a weapons analyst with the GlobalSecurity.org research group, said the missile shield is not yet fully operational.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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Friedman said one review his office conducted last year turned up backlogs in flight and laboratory test schedules for five of nine nuclear missile warheads and bombs in the operational stockpile.
Instead of permanently decommissioning it, the Defense Missile Agency placed it in a non-operational state.
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" He declared that "a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter.
Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman who has championed the need for anti-missile defences, believes the Shahab-3 may already be operational.
All the legal constraints that had prevented use of sea-based systems in missile defense schemes disappeared, and engineers could begin thinking about exploiting the full operational potential of the Aegis combat system.
It is worth noting in that regard that the Aegis warships participating in the tests and technology upgrades are operational assets involved in a wide array of other roles even as they come to dominate the missile defense mission area.
Recently, the U.S. government discovered in East Germany a number of undeclared, operational launchers (reportedly 6) for the INF Treaty-limited SS-23 shorter-range missile system, together with a significant quantity of associated missiles (reportedly as many as 24).
Three features make this test particularly significant: For the first time, the hardware and software utilized was the operational configuration (known as AEGIS BMD 3.0) that will be installed in all other AEGIS missile defense ships.
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