Test Failure Sets Back US Missile Defense Plan
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President Bush&#39;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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WASHINGTON - A major test of the US missile defence system has failed. The test was the first in almost two years and it never got off the ground.
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A test of interceptor missiles as part of the planned US defence shield fails for the second time in two months.
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The countryÂs missile defense system passed a crucial test today, the Pentagon announced.
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An interceptor missile failed to launch early Wednesday in what was to have been the first full flight test of the US national missile defense system in nearly 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 first test in nearly two years of a multi-billion-dollar United States anti-missile shield failed yesterday when an interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A limited US national missile-defence system is not expected to be activated until at least early 2005, missing President George W. Bush&#39;s year-end goal, a military spokesman said Friday.
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A test of the national ballistic missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile didn't get out of its silo, the second failure in as many months.
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The United States failed in a planned missile defense flight test on Wednesday as the interceptor missile shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific, local media reported.
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The United States said on Tuesday that China's recent anti-satellite missile test had endangered hundreds of satellites and left debris in orbit for a century, but reiterated its opposition to a new global treaty on space.
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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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WASHINGTON The first full flight test of the national missile defense system in nearly two years failed early today. An interceptor rocket didn&#39;t even get off the ground.
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While a Defense Department spokesman Wednesday called the botched $85 million test of the national missile defense system an &quot;anomaly,&quot; a former Pentagon weapons tester told
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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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For a U.S. military increasingly dependent on sophisticated satellites for communicating, gathering intelligence and guiding missiles, the possibility that those space-based systems could come under attack has become a growing worry -- and the perceived need to defend them ever more urgent. And...
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Israeli military officials defend a new anti-missile system they are developing with the US, despite its failure in tests.