Multi-Mission Warfare (MMW) Events 1-4

08/16/2015
08/16/2015: The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) successfully conducted a series of four flight test events exercising the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) element of the nation's Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). The flight test, designated…

SBX Entering Pearl Harbor, October 2014

01/07/2015
01/07/2015: The SBX is a one of a kind radar deployed near Japan used for monitoring missile threats in the Pacific, notably from North Korea.  Credit:Commander Navy Region Hawaii:10/24/14 According an Hawaii News Now story published in 2011: The SBX-1 structure towers, 28 stories high. "It's similar to a Nimiz…