A joint U.S.-Israeli missile test on Tuesday in the eastern Mediterranean Sea triggered Russian radars in what leaders described as a "routine" exercise.Both U.S. and Israeli defense officials insisted that the test firing of a Sparrow missile was routine and unrelated to the Syrian crisis. However, the announcement of the test came only after Moscow complained that its radars had picked up two "ballistic objects" fired in the general direction of the Syrian coast.
"This test had nothing to do with United States' consideration of military action to respond to Syria's chemical weapons attack," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement.
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