US missile defense test fails: Pentagon

by Staff Writers

Washington (AFP) July 06, 2013


America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.
The miss represented yet another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.
The test's objective was to have an interceptor, launched from Vandenberg air base in California, knock out a long-range ballistic missile fired from a US military test site at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.
But "an intercept was not achieved," US Missile Defense Agency spokesman Richard Lehner said in a brief statement.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive review to determine the cause or causes of any anomalies which may have prevented a successful intercept," it said.
The anti-missile weapon has run into repeated technical problems, with tests delayed after two failures in 2010.


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America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.

A Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) interceptor missile being launched from Omelek Island. (AFP/File/DoD/Missile Defense Agency/Andrew Hall)
WASHINGTON: America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.
The miss represented yet another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.
The test's objective was to have an interceptor, launched from Vandenberg air base in California, knock out a long-range ballistic missile fired from a US military test site at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands.
But "an intercept was not achieved," US Missile Defense Agency spokesman Richard Lehner said in a brief statement.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive review to determine the cause or causes of any anomalies which may have prevented a successful intercept," it said.

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