Meck Island

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Aerial view of Meck Island

Meck Island (Template:Langx, Template:IPAc-mh[1]) is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Ralik Chain in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Script error: No such module "convert". 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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  1. ↑ Marshallese-English Dictionary - Place Name Index

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