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The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency Will Test-Fire its New Larger SM-3IIA Interceptor Missile in Space
[Kris Osborn]
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The SM-3 IIA can hit bigger targets, such as incoming enemy ballistic missiles, at longer distances than previous SM-3 interceptor missiles

The Missile Defense Agency and Raytheon will soon fire fire a new SM-3 missile variant into space to destroy an approaching enemy missile target - as a way to develop a new interceptor better able to detect and destroy ballistic missile threats approaching the earth’s atmosphere from space.

The new missile, called the SM-3IIA, is slated to fire from a land-based missile defense site planned by the Pentagon for Poland by 2018, a Missile Defense Agency spokesman, told Scout Warrior in a statement.

http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1677991-sm-3iia-interceptor-to-attack-missile-target
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