Updated at 3:28 p.m., Thursday, June 5, 2008
MISSILE TEST
Navy shoots down missile off Kauai
Associated Press
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A modified Standard Missile - 2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptor is launched from the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during today's Missile Defense Agency test against
a short range ballistic missile (Scud-like) target. Moments after the launch, there was a successful intercept approximately 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean, on the Pacific Missile Range Facility, about 100 miles west of the island of Kauai, Hawaii. It was the second successful intercept, in two attempts, of a sea-based terminal capability and the fourteenth overall of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program.
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Two modified Standard Missile - 2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors are launched from the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during today's Missile Defense Agency test.
The SM-2's were launched from the ship in pursuit of a short range ballistic missile target. Within minutes, the missiles intercepted the target approximately 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles west of Kauai,
Hawaii, on the Pacific Missile Range Facility. It was the second successful intercept, in two attempts, of the sea-based terminal capability and the fourteenth overall of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program.
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The U.S. military says it intercepted a ballistic missile in its first sea-based missile defense test since the USS Lake Erie shot down an errant satellite earlier this year.
The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship off Kauai.
The USS Lake Erie, a Pearl Harbor-based Navy cruiser, fired two interceptor missiles at the target.
The interceptors shot down the target in its final seconds of flight about 12 miles above the Pacific Ocean and some 100 miles northwest of Kauai.
