US Successfully Launches A Shore-Based Missile Interceptor Off Hawaii

US Test-Fires Aegis Missile Defence System Destined For Europe -- The Guardian

Test takes place in Hawaii of interceptor that will be stationed first in Romania as part of US-Nato system criticised by Russia

The United States has announced the first live firing test of a missile interceptor destined to be stationed initially in Romania and then elsewhere in Europe.

The test of the system, known as Aegis, comes amid tensions between Nato and Russia over the annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine.

The Obama administration's current European Phased Adaptive Approach calls for the first Aegis Ashore site to be operational in Romania in 2015, with a second site to follow in Poland in 2018.

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