Americas...:Pentagon: US Missile Defense System Fails

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America's missile defense system failed on Friday in a test over the Pacific, with an interceptor failing to hit an incoming ballistic missile, the Pentagon said.
This represented another setback for the costly ground-based interceptors, which have not had a successful test result since 2008.

The test's objective was to have an interceptor, launched from Vandenberg air base in California, knock out a long-range ballistic missile fired from a US military test site at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. They are supposed to counter the potential threat posed by North Korea, which has tried to develop long-range ballistic missiles.

But "an intercept was not achieved," US Missile War Agency spokesman Richard Lehner said in a brief statement.
"Program officials will conduct an extensive review to determine the cause or causes of any anomalies which may have prevented a successful intercept," it said.

The anti-missile weapon has run into repeated technical problems, with tests delayed after two failures in 2010. The United States has 30 of the ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, at a cost of about $34 billion.

Source: News Agencies, edited by website team