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Monday, April 27, 2009

U.S. said studying ground-based SM-3 missile system

Standard Missile 3 (SM-3)The U.S. Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has started studying a new missile defense system capable of launching the Standard Missile-3 from the ground, it was learned Saturday.

The SM-3 is an antiballistic missile system currently deployed on the Aegis-equipped destroyer.

The current missile system offers a two-part defense--the Aegis destroyer-based SM-3 missile system and the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) system, in which missiles are launched from the ground.

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