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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Aegis system test will be from destroyer

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usThe Missile Defense Agency tomorrow will conduct the first test of the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System from a Navy destroyer off the coast of Kaua‘i, according to agency spokesman Chris Taylor.

The event will mark the 11th Aegis test — all coordinated from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands — and follows two months after an Aegis-equipped Navy cruiser successfully intercepted two simultaneous threats.

Navy destroyers are smaller vessels than cruisers but more prolific.

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