MX test result
NZPA-Reuter Washington The Pentagon has said that all six of the simulated warheads on the MX missile tested for the first time on June 17, met accuracy standards. “Accuracy was very good,” said Brigadier-Gen-eral Al Casey, commander of the Air Force’s ballistic missile office. The controversial missile was fired from the Vandenberg Air Force base, near
Santa Barbara, California, to a test area about 6450 km away in the South Pacific. General Casey said that all six of the simulated warheads had landed within the designated impact area. The MX, to be deployed in 1986, is to have 10 warheads. The Reagan and Carter Administrations have argued that the MX was needed to counter new missiles being deployed by the Soviet Union
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Press, 2 July 1983, Page 11
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