Missile Defense Flight Test Conducted
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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 attempt to launch an interceptor missile as part of the US missile defence shield failed early Wednesday in the first test of the system in nearly two years.
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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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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 United States scrapped on Friday a key test of an emerging 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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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 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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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 - The military is in the final stages of readying its national ballistic missile defense system, with officials predicting it will be activated before year's end. But several questions remain, including how well the experimental missile interceptors work...
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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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A Japanese navy destroyer shot down a dummy ballistic missile in a test about 100 miles
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A team in California led by Boeing Co. successfully completed the first laboratory trial of a system to destroy ballistic missiles just after they are launched.
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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 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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The US says it has intercepted a dummy long-range missile in a test of its missile defence system.
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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 antimissile shield in 18 months, the Defense   Department announced.
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The U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in the Washington area as a warning when they enter restricted airspace.