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U.S. Missile Intercept System Passes Latest Test

A Reuters newswire article by Jim Wolf, via MSNBC, reports that:

A U.S. interceptor missile on Friday shot down a dummy warhead replicating an incoming North Korean missile in the seventh successful test of the Boeing Co.'s long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said.

The interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast, and its target was fired from Alaska's Kodiak Island.

U.S. critics say the missile defense tests prove little because they are highly scripted. An attacker would use decoys that would likely foil U.S. defenses, they say.

posted by Fergie @ 9/28/2007 06:09:00 PM