WASHINGTON - The first test of a planned multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield in nearly two years has failed, with the interceptor missile shutting down on its launch pad in the central Pacific before it was launched, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile carrying a mock warhead had been successfully launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska, the Pentagon's Missile Defence Agency said in a statement.
- REUTERS
US missile defence test fails
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