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Guided missile destroyer USS Hopper launches a RIM-161 Standard Missile

July 30, 2009 - The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70), equipped with the Aegis integrated weapons system, launches a RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 Block IA during exercise Stellar Avenger while under way in the Pacific Ocean. The missile successfully intercepted a sub-scale, short-range, ballistic missile that was launched from the Kauai Test Facility, Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii

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