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A Standard Missile 3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a joint Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test in the Pacific Ocean on Apr. 25, 2007. Approximately three minutes later the missile intercepted a ballistic missile threat target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.

A Standard Missile 3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70).

A Standard Missile 3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a joint Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test in the Pacific Ocean on Apr. 25, 2007. Approximately three minutes later the missile intercepted a ballistic missile threat target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.

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