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Psychological tactic? US cheers for missile defense progress in high style

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An undated photo supplied by Lockheed Martin, an Aegis-equipped destroyer launches an intercept missile. The missile defense system is intended to intercept and destroy short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

The US military on Friday successfully conducted its "most challenging test to date" of a ballistic missile defense system it will deploy in Europe to counter an Iran missile threat, officials said.

"Initial indications are that all components performed as designed," said the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency in a statement of the test over the Pacific Ocean in which the latest Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range threat missile.

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The test was conducted by the MDA, using Lockheed Martin's shipboard Aegis combat system and a Raytheon missile interceptor, with U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS O'Kane and soldiers from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command operating from the Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.

It was a crucial test for the program: The last two intercept tests of a separate U.S. ground-based missile defense, aimed at protecting U.S. soil, have failed, Reuters reported.

The "successful test demonstrated the capability of the first phase" of the European missile shield announced by President Barack Obama in September 2009, the MDA statement said.

"The two demonstration Space Tracking and Surveillance Satellites (STSS), launched by MDA in 2009, successfully acquired the target missile, providing stereo 'birth to death' tracking of the target," the statement said.

"The Lockheed Martin-led team has evolved Aegis from an anti-ship missile system to the basis for the U.S. approach to global missile defense," said Lisa Callahan, vice president of maritime ballistic missile defense programs for Lockheed Martin, in a statement about the test. "With this test, Aegis BMD proves that it can expand the battlespace and destroy ballistic missile threats earlier in their trajectory than ever before."

The defense system is meant to shield the U.S. from a potential ballistic missile attack, possibly from North Korea or Iran.

The plan put forward by President Barack Obama 19 months ago envisions a mobile system of sea-based interceptors that would protect against short- and medium-range missiles from Iran, rather than Tehran's yet-to-be-developed long-range arsenal.

The Pentagon scrapped an earlier plan -- strongly opposed by Moscow -- that would have seen US missile defense facilities deployed in Eastern Europe.

The Aegis system has suffered some high-profile setbacks in the form of multiple failed tests, including in December when an interceptor rocket meant to knock out incoming ballistic missiles failed its second test in a row. (AFP/Fox News)

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