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U.S. Plans: Defense Department Will Produce Report on Failed Test The U.S. Defense Department will produce a report “very, very shortly” on a failed June 18 test of a missile defense system, Aerospace Daily reported today (see GSN, June 19). The USS Lake Erie, using the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, fired a Standard Missile 3 during a test in the Pacific. The missile, however, failed to intercept its target, Aerospace Daily reported. The missile successfully tracked the target but failed to hit it, according to Maj. Gen. Peter Franklin, the deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency. Franklin said yesterday that the missile successfully located the target and tracked it for six seconds before “losing control.” “It did lose control and we lost the intercept,” he said, adding that the tracking portion of the test was a success. “The system was able to track across the radar base, which was an important part of the test,” he said (Nick Jonson, Aerospace Daily, July 9).
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