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A US Navy (USN) Standard Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Ticonderoga Class Guided Cruiser USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70), during a joint Defense Agency, USN ballistic missile flight test. Minutes later, the SM-3 intercepted a separating ballistic missile threat target, launched form the Pacific Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. The test was the sixth intercept, in seven flight tests, by the AEGIS (Airborne Early-Warning Ground-Environmental Integration Segment) Ballistic Defense, the maritime component of the "Hit to Kill" Ballistic Defense System, being developed by the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A US Navy (USN) Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Ti More

A US Navy (USN) Standard Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Ticonderoga Class Guided Cruiser USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70), during a joint Defense Agency, USN ballistic missile flight test. Minutes later, the SM-3 intercepted a separating ballistic missile threat target, launched form the Pacific Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. The test was the sixth intercept, in seven flight tests, by the AEGIS (Airborne Early-Warning Ground-Environmental Integration Segment) Ballistic Defense, the maritime component of the "Hit to Kill" Ballistic Defense System, being developed by the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A US Navy (USN) Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Ti More

A medium-range separating target missile is seen seconds after lift-off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii (HI). Six minutes later, the target was intercepted by a developmental Standard Missile Three (SM-3) launched from the Pearl Harbor based Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) [not shown]. The test was the sixth intercept, in seven ight tests, by the AEGIS (Airborne Early-Warning Ground-Environmental Integration Segment) 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...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A medium-range separating target missile is seen seconds after lift-off from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking More