![The new Aegis Ashore system is designed to defeat short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles Aegis Ashore installation](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YyNTEU-N_Nt6OEpam1hyphenhyphenUHyyRuMj3EN0vg9rhY3890O0k60P598AZbIL43CqqmTge05gOaChF4VgzwuyJ0xIwvNJbU2Q-tSXNNWnL86_xVZFGseTmRCZH3ML1SnzdBerzo1M/s640/Aegis+Ashore+installation.jpg)
"Due to a target malfunction, the test wasn't conducted and an interceptor wasn't launched," said Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department agency.
No comment was immediately available from Lockheed. Raytheon Co, which builds the SM-3 missile used by the Aegis Ashore system, the land-based version of the Aegis combat system deployed on U.S. Navy destroyers, as well as its AN/SPY-1 radar, referred questions to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
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