BadGimp

Missile misses target, officials call it a success

Thursday, June 19, 2003 Posted: 4:16 AM EDT (0816 GMT)

(CNN) -- The Missile Defense Agency conducted a missile defense test over Hawaii Wednesday, and while the warhead did not strike the target, officials said they still considered the exercise a success.

"I wouldn't call it a failed test, because the intercept was not the primary objective," said Chris Taylor, a spokesman for the MDA. "It's still considered a success in that we gained great engineering data. We just don't know why it didn't hit."

At 1:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. ET), a target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Taylor said. About two minutes later, a standard missile-3 (SM-3), the developmental missile for the Aegis program, was launched from the USS Lake Erie, about 160 nautical miles off the coast of Kauai, he said.

"All of the stages separated and the kinetic warhead tracked the target, but did not intercept the target," Taylor said.

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ONLY the Bush administration would try to pawn this shit off as a success. They are fucking us so hard on this bullshit "feed the rich" program it makes my blood boil.

BadGimp

posted by BadGimp @ 3:06 PM