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Navy's SM-3 bags another one
KAUAI, Hawaii, June 22, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY -- A Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-produced Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) successfully engaged a ballistic missile target outside the earth's atmosphere during a flight test over the Pacific Ocean.Launched from the USS DECATUR (DDG 73), the SM-3 Block IA destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target that had been launched from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. This flight test marked the first time that a SM-3 was fired from an Aegis destroyer. In previous tests, the missile was launched from Aegis cruisers. It was the third intercept of a medium-range target with a separating re-entry warhead and the ninth successful intercept for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program. Two successful BMD tests in one day. Sen. Levin (D, North Korea) will be annoyed. Posted by: PBMcL 2007-06-23 |
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