Europe’s Anti-TBM System Is Ready For Action
Soldiers monitor one of two consoles within the SAMP/T system radar van.
Soldiers monitor one of two consoles within the SAMP/T system radar van.

On display here and ready for export, Europe’s own state-of-the-art air defense system has now demonstrated its anti-tactical ballistic missile (TBM) capability three times. In the most recent test two months ago, the MBDA Aster 30 missile successfully intercepted a target representing a TBM fired from 185 miles away. Unlike the first two anti-TBM tests, this one was fully coordinated within the NATO command-and-control structure.