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Article: PAC-3 Hits Cruise Missile Target In Flight Test.(Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile)(Brief Article)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- July 25, 2000
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The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile engaged and destroyed a low altitude cruise missile target during a flight test Saturday at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and the Army reported.
Preliminary test data shows the system successfully destroyed the MQM-107 Streaker drone, BMDO said in a statement.
The test marks the sixth successful flight test of PAC-3, which now has notched four intercepts (Defense Daily, July 20). In the last ...