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Saturday, January 22, 2011

U.S. Navy conducts missile defense exercise off Eastern Shore

Ticonderoga-classThree Norfolk-based Navy ships will spend the weekend off the Eastern Shore training to shoot down short-range ballistic missiles.

The guided missile cruiser Monterey and the destroyers Gonzalez and Ramage began the exercise Thursday. It's part of the Navy's sea-based Aegis ballistic missile defense program.

The exercise is taking place near Wallops Island. The ships will practice tracking rockets fired from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, and then simulate shooting them down. The training is scheduled to wrap up Tuesday.

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