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Aerojet’s THAAD Booster Scores Second Successful Intercept over Pacific Range
Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. (NYSE: GY) company, again demonstrated its Boost Motor capabilities when the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted another flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, successfully intercepting a target over the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, HI. A previous intercept test was conducted at PMRF on Jan. 19, 2007.
This third hit-to-kill intercept test demonstrated THAAD's effectiveness against “realworld” threats.
Once deployed, its ability to provide increased protection for American citizens, troops and regional population centers will significantly improve the nation’s missile defense capabilities.
Aerojet provides the Boost Motor for the THAAD system. "This test highlighted the capability of the THAAD system to intercept increasingly difficult targets under highly realistic threat scenario conditions,” says Dick Bregard, Aerojet vice president of Defense Programs.
The THAAD interceptor is the only missile defense system that engages threat ballistic
missiles traveling within and outside of the earth’s atmosphere.
Aerojet is a world recognized aerospace and defense leader principally serving the missile and space propulsion, defense and armaments markets.
GenCorp is a leading technology based manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with a real estate business segment that includes activities related to the entitlement, sale, and leasing of the company’s excess real estate assets. Additional information about Aerojet and
GenCorp can be obtained by visiting the
companies’ Web sites at http://www.Aerojet.com and http://www.GenCorp.com.
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