A US missile defense test in the Pacific aborted when one of two interceptor missiles failed to fire from a US Aegis class cruiser, the Pentagon said.
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency blamed the setback on an "incorrect system setting" aboard the USS Lake Erie which was supposed to launch the missiles almost simultaneously at two targets.
I sure hope Frank McKenna was watching.
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Why would he care about sea based midcourse defense? That system is designed to cover places from the sea like Japan, Taiwan, Australia etc. And missile has only missed a target once due to a component failure.
Education:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm
It's a good system, and no system can be free of errors 100% of the time.
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