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The U.S. Army is investigating why the latest test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile system apparently failed to achieve an intercept.
During the Nov. 11 test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., two PAC-3 missiles were fired about 8 a.m. Mountain time against a legacy Patriot missile modified to represent a short-range ballistic missile target. But preliminary data show that an intercept did not occur, the Army said.
Although the Army had better luck in a similar test in September, when it also fired two PAC-3s at a Patriot-as-a-target, (DAILY, Sept. 9), there were several planned differences between that test and the one that just occurred, Army spokesman Bob Hunt said. The target in the latest test had a different flight profile than the one used in the previous test. In addition, the more recent test used a newer version of the PAC-3 missile than the one used in the earlier test.
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