$85 million missile test goes awry
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The first test since 2002 of the Pentagon&#39;s $25 billion defense against long-range missiles ended in failure early Wednesday when a computer safety system shut down the launch of an interceptor rocket 23 seconds before liftoff.
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India has test fired its longest-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile for the first time, but it failed to hit its target, defence officials and sources said.
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The Bush administration&#39;s ambitious national missile defense program suffered a major setback on Wednesday when a malfunction forced a shutdown of the first test
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A target missile that went astray over the Pacific Friday, scuttled a key test of the multibillion-dollar U.S. missile defense's backbone, the Pentagon said.
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One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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U.S. space hawks seize on China's anti-satellite missile test. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.
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The first full flight test for the US missile defence system failed when the interceptor rocket didn&#39;t even get off the ground.
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The first flight test in nearly two  years of a planned U.S. missile-defense shield has been  scrapped two days in a row this week because of bad weather,  the Pentagon said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 15  - The failure of a US interceptor missile test flight is a major blow to US efforts to have a missile defence shield in operation by the end of the year, experts and US media said Thursday.
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Operators mistakenly took a Navy pilot's F/A-18 Hornet for an incoming Iraqi missile during the spring 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said Friday.
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An experimental interceptor missile failed to get off the ground in a test of the US national missile defense system early Wednesday, raising new doubts about prospects for the imminent activation of the system.
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The test failure last month of the Bush administration's new missile defense system resulted from a "very minor" computer software glitch that can be easily corrected and will have no effect on the system's ability to defend the United States against attack, the general in charge of the Pentagon program said Wednesday.
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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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President Bush's planned ballistic  missile shield suffered another setback on Monday when an  interceptor missile again failed to launch during a test of the  U.S. missile defense system.
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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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The Pentagon failed to meet its goal  of declaring a missile defense system operational in 2004 and  critics said failures in testing the ambitious system show it  simply does not work.
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An important test of the United States' fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday, the Pentagon said.