TEST LAUNCH
U.S. Department of Defense sent this bulletin at 05/20/2013 05:32 PM EDT
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05/20/2013 05:19 PM CDT
A Standard Missile-3 Block 1B interceptor missile is launched 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. The SM-3 Block 1B successfully intercepted a target missile that had been launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii. Lake Erie detected and tracked the target with its onboard AN/SPY-1 radar.