- Source: Meck Island
Meck Island (Marshallese: Meik, [mʲeik]) is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Ralik Chain in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2,100 nautical miles (3,900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Meck is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, and a launch site for anti-ballistic missiles and launch vehicles is based there. It was originally developed in support of the Sentinel program of the 1960s, and hosted a radar site and launchers for Sprint and Spartan missiles. It has been used for a variety of tests since then, including the Safeguard program, Homing Overlay Experiment, Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, THAAD and others.
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- Meck Island
- Meck
- Kwajalein Atoll
- Roi-Namur
- Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
- Illeginni Island
- Missile defense systems by country
- Battle of Kwajalein
- Mutual assured destruction
- Sentinel program
