Keywords: Standard Missile III SM-3 RIM-161 test launch 04017005.jpg en Standard Missile - 3 SM-3 is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie CG-70 during a joint Missile Defense Agency U S Navy ballistic missile flight test today Minutes later the SM-3 intercepted a separating ballistic missile threat target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands Kauai Hawaii The test was the sixth intercept in seven flight tests by the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense the maritime component of the Hit-to-Kill Ballistic Missile Defense System being developed by the Missile Defense Agency All previous Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense flight tests were against unitary non-separating targets http //www navsource org/archives/04/040170 htm 2005-11-17 U S Navy photo according to authoritative source below Image SM-3 launch jpg PD-USN Launches of RIM-161 Standard SM-3 Aboard USS Lake Erie CG-70 |