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HONOLULU — The military says its ground- based mobile missile defense system has successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test.
The military says the target missile was shot down Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean.
The target missile was fired from a mobile launch platform off the island of Kauai.
Soldiers with the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade then launched an interceptor from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai’s west coast.
The technology is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last stage of flight.
