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| Navy's SM-3 bags another one |
| 2007-06-23 |
| 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 |
| #1 Sen. Levin (D, North Korea) will be annoyed LMAO! |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-06-23 16:43 |