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Article: Raytheon STANDARD Missile-3 Scores Another Ballistic Missile Intercept in Test Of Sea-Based Missile Defense Element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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- June 14, 2002
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PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii -- A Raytheon Company STANDARD Missile-3 (SM-3) hit a ballistic missile target in space during a June 13 Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Sea-based Midcourse Defense (SMD) flight test off the Hawaii coast. It was the SMD's second successful intercept.
The flight test, designated Flight Mission-3 (FM-3), was designed to hit the target - a modified Minuteman I second stage which had been launched from Kauai - in space.
USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) tracked the target, and then launched the SM-3. The missile, with guidance commands from the ship's weapon system, flew a trajectory of more than 500 kilometers ...