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U.S. Plans I: Missile Defense Test Successful The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy yesterday completed the third consecutive successful test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system (see GSN, Nov. 21). An SM-3 missile fired from the USS Lake Erie, a ballistic missile cruiser that carries Aegis equipment, intercepted a target fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The object of the test was to intercept a missile in its ascent phase, which the Standard Missile 3 did successfully. The Lake Erie targeted and intercepted the missile without any external information, the Pentagon said. Yesterday’s test was the first of six planned tests to develop an emergency sea-based missile defense capability against short- and medium-range ballistic missiles (U.S. Defense Department release, Nov. 21).
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