US Missile Defense Test Fails
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in
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Forget inflight internet, you want raygun missile dazzlers The US Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that it will mount testbed anti-missile defence kit on three airliners this year, in order to assess how it affects performance in the commercial aviation environment.â¦
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What the Bush administration had hoped would be a triumphant achievement is clouded by doubts, even within the Pentagon, about whether a missile defense system that is on its way to costing more than $100 billion will work.
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Hundreds of tonnes of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional missiles, or as a trigger for nuclear devices, has disappeared from a military installation in Iraq left unguarded by the US military, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA
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Although only a test, the failure of the US National Missile defense Program yesterday was seen as a major setback for the program.
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Existing technology to resist a shoulder-fired-missile attack on a commercial aircraft is too expensive and unreliable, according to a Rand Corp. study released Tuesday.
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Bad weather forces the US to cancel the first full flight test of its national missile defence system in nearly two years.
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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The Missile Defense Agency announced today it was unable to complete a planned flight test after the interceptor missile experienced an anomaly shortly before it was to be launched from the Ronald Reagan Test Site, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the
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THE first test in nearly two years of a multi-billion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed yesterday when the interceptor missile shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific.
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The first test in nearly two years  of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed on  Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down on its launch  pad in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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A missile test costing more than $100 million has gone severely wrong in the United States long-running project for a so-called &quot;son of Star Wars&quot; missile defence system.
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President Bush's drive to deploy a  multibillion-dollar shield against ballistic missiles was set  back on Wednesday by what critics called a stunning failure of  its first full flight test in two years.
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The United States said Thursday that a U.S. missile-defense system under development has &quot;limited operational capability&quot; to protect against weapons such as the long-range missile North Korea is said to be near firing.
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THE US national missile defence program suffered a major setback yesterday with the forced shutdown of the first test flight of a high-speed interceptor missile.
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Central European Social Democrat parties  rejected on Thursday a U.S. plan to build part of its missile  defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying it  threatened to bring about a new arms race.
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(OfficialWire) -- 12/15/04 -- Following the first test in nearly two years, the Pentagon is today blaming its latest missile test failure on an &quot;unknown anomaly&quot;.