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Caption:
Pacific Ocean (June 22, 2006) -- A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is
launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) during a
joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight
test. Two minutes later, the SM-3 intercepted a separating
ballistic missile threat target, launched from the Pacific Missile
Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. The test was the seventh
intercept, in eight program flight tests, by the Aegis Ballistic
Missile Defense. The maritime capability is designed to intercept short
to medium-range ballistic missile threats in the midcourse phase of
flight. U.S. Navy photo (RELEASED)
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