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Hawaii: United States test missile defense system

For the US media the exercise was unsuccessful

The missile defense test conducted over the Hawaii islands (USA) on Wednesday morning by the Missile Defense Agency of the US Department of Defense would have been a failure: according to the US press the Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IIA launched from a ground base would not have been able to intercept its target, a rocket that had been launched from an airplane flying over the archipelago. The...

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Washington, Usa, 02/01/2018 12:50
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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