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Failed night test for the "space shield" program

Washington, Usa - With this failure Us government has lost USD 100m

In the Tuesday's night it has failed a nightly test, tried in an island of the Pacific Ocean, regarding a missile to be used in antimissile function in the field of the defense program, financed by the Us government, called "space shield" that has as an objective the protection of the Usa and its allied countries that should want to join the project. Official sources of the Us Army said that the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 37180
Rome, Italy, 12/12/2002 13:35
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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