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A 3 (SM-3) missile is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis
cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), during a joint Missile Defense
Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test 11/17/05.
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 sixth intercept, in seven flight tests, by the
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, the maritime component
of the 'Hit-to-Kill' Ballistic Missile Defense System,
being developed by the Missile Defense Agency.
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