Missile defence shield test fails
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A test of the planned US anti-missile defence shield fails in the first mission in almost two years.
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Over a year after its induction in the Army, the Agni-II intermediate range missile was test-fired on Sunday to test its guidance system over a shorter range.
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An important test of the United States' fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday, the Pentagon said.
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Description: An interceptor missile in the Pentagon&#39;s missile defense program fails to deploy in a test Wednesday. NPR&#39;s Michele Norris talks with a major critic of the current missile defense program, Philip Coyle.
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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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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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A target missile successfully blasted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex at 8:45 pm Tuesday, but the interceptor it was meant to test failed to launch from the Kwajalein Atoll in the central
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An interceptor missile destroyed a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean on Friday in a key test of the nation's missile defense system, officials said.
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US Defense Department officials say an anti-missile defense system test failed early Wednesday when an interceptor missile shut down on its launch pad in the Pacific Ocean.
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The United States scuttled on Friday a key test of an emerging ballistic missile-defense shield after a dummy missile that was to have been the system's target went astray over the Pacific.
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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 U.S. military shot down a target   ballistic missile over the Pacific on Friday in the widest test   of its emerging anti-missile shield in 18 months, the Defense   Department announced.
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Developed in Redondo Beach, the COIL passes first test firing of such a device meant to be airborne. By Muhammed El-Hasan. The government&#39;s plans to develop a missile defense shield received a boost this week
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Jerusalem - Israel&#39;s new-generation spy satellite Ofek 6 failed a launch attempt on Monday and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea after a technical malfunction, the defence ministry and army radio 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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An interceptor missile destroyed a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean on Friday in a key test of the nation's missile defense system, U.S. military officials said.
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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.