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Sea-Based Missile Defense Test Fails

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

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The Navy's first test of the advanced Standard Missile 3 Block 1B failed during a flight yesterday when the interceptor failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean, the Missile Defense Agency said. The short range ballistic missile target took off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii at 9:53 a.m. EDT. Ninety seconds later, the Ticonderoga-class USS Lake Erie (CG-70), employing the Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, launched the SM-3, but was unable to…

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