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A Standard Missile-3 Block 1B interceptor missile launches from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean, May 16, 2013.

TEST LAUNCH

A Standard Missile-3 Block 1B interceptor missile launches from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean, May 16, 2013.

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