How Missiles Can Save the World

The deployment of an advanced version of the SM-3 interceptor in phase four of the approach would augment existing ground-based interceptors located in California and Alaska (pictured), which provide for homeland defence against potential ICBM threats.

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  A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch from...
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  A Standard missile-3 (SM-3) being launched. The missile defence architecture...
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  The deployment of an advanced version of the SM-3 interceptor in phase four...

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