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U.S. Plans I: Air Force Will Launch Ballistic Missile Targets From Aircraft U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft will begin launching ballistic missile targets over the Pacific Ocean in November, Space & Missile reported today (see GSN, July 9). “They wanted to do a lot of tests and evaluations at some locations where we just can’t provide the targets,” said Air Force Col. Nat Thongchua, director of the Rocket Systems Launch Program. “We had to come up with a way of launching a target from anywhere. The concept came up and it was called the Air Launched Target,” he added. The air-launched missiles can be used to test any form of interceptor and the cost is the same as a ground-launched target, Thongchua said. The first test of the new target is scheduled to take place at Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands (Ray Nelson, Space & Missile, July 28).
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