US Missile Defence Fails First Test
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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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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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The first test of the United States anti-missile shield in nearly two years, has failed. Our correspondent, John Shovelan, reports the Missile Defence Agency says the ground-based interceptor has shut down, due to an unknown anomaly.
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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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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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A Japanese navy destroyer shot down a ballistic missile in space on Monday in a test over the Pacific, a first for a U.S. ally, a witness said.
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WASHINGTON - An important test of the United States&#39; emerging missile-defense system ended in an $85 million failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch as scheduled from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.
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Japan successfully intercepted a ballistic missile in its first test launch of the US-developed SM-3 missile interceptor system from a warship in waters off Hawaii, a defence official said Tuesday.
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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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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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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 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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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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India&#039;s first test-firing of a new nuclear-capable missile was unsuccessful, the defense minister said Monday.
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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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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.