Floating radar prepares for missile test

Sea-Based X-Band Radar stationed in Hawaii is getting a test.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (http://bit.ly/14XBWAG) reports the $2 billion floating radar component of the U.S. ground-based ballistic missile defense system has left Pearl Harbor for an exercise.

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance chairman Riki Ellison says an interceptor fired from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base will try to shoot down a target missile fired from Kwajalein (KWAH'-jah-lihn) Atoll.

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