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Caption:
PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 6, 2007) -- A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched
from Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to
intercept a threat representative target as part of a Missile Defense
Agency test of the sea-based capability under development. This was
part of a multiple simultaneous engagement involving two ballistic
missile targets that were intercepted about 250 miles from Kauai and
approximately 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The SM-3 was one of
two interceptors launched from the ship that collided with two
ballistic missile targets launched from the Pacific Missile Range Test
Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, within minutes of one another. U.S. Navy
photo (RELEASED)
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