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A missile is launched from a ship at sea.

Missile Launch

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chaffe launches an SM-2 Block IV missile during a joint surface-to-air missile exercise with the Royal Canadian navy off the coast of Hawaii as part of the Rim of the Pacific exercise, July 19, 2022. Twenty-six nations and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC, the world's largest international maritime exercise.

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