Raytheon shoots down ICBM in homeland defense test 

“As part of a historic Missile Defense Agency demonstration and for the first time ever, an intercontinental ballistic missile target was intercepted and destroyed outside Earth’s atmosphere by an advanced SM-3 Block IIA ballistic missile defense interceptor made by Raytheon Missiles & Defense,” Raytheon (RTX -1.2%) writes in a new press release.

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