Missile test failure seen as blow to US defence shield hopes
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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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The United States needs a shield against what it sees as a growing missile threat from Iran, despite a recent report showing it had halted its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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The looming U.S. Navy attempt to shoot down a dying satellite could demonstrate an anti-satellite capability for its missile defense system.
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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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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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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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NEW DELHI: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s meeting with Indian leaders on Thursday was bit of a let down. The controversial sales of US weapons systems to Pakistan did not figure at the joint-press
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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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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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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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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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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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WASHINGTON - The first full test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed Wednesday when one missile launched but a second shut down before leaving the ground, the Pentagon says.
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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 as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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Britain's security is at risk because of a loss of self-confidence, says a leading defence think tank.
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Interceptor missiles deployed in Poland as part of a US missile defense shield would be fast enough to target Russian intercontinental missiles, contrary to US assurances, a US researcher said Thursday.