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US to launch test of nation’s missile shield

By Melissa Quinn
Published May 26, 2017 5:17pm ET
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US to launch test of nation’s missile shield
The agency will launch a "threat-representative" intercontinental ballistic missile from a test site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and a ground-based interceptor (pictured) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (U.S. Army)

The Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency is planning to test the nation’s missile shield next week, the agency said Friday.

Officials will test the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, part of the ballistic missile defense system, which is designed to track and intercept an incoming long-range ballistic missile from a hostile country while it’s in space.

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