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	Pacific Missile Range Facility (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training range, PMRF is the only range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously.
		In order to ensure that PMRF can continue to safely conduct important research and training operations in the future, the Navy and many citizens of Kauai are seeking to permanently preserve the land adjacent to PMRF for agricultural purposes.
		PMRF is Kauai’s largest employer, with nearly 1000 military, civilian employees and contract personnel.
	www.hawaii.navy.mil.cob-web.org:8888 /PMRF/PMRF_AgricultureInitiative.htm (1142 words)

	Pacific Missile Range Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Range Control and the Operation Control Centers are in the Barking Sands operations area, one-half mile from the main gate.
		A target support and red-label area is a mile north of the main gate, with the PMRF ordnance and launching area farther to the north.
		Range support aircraft include five UH-3H helicopters which are used for surveillance, personnel transfer, logistics, target launch, and weapon/target recovery; and three C-26 fixed-wing aircraft for range surveillance, electronic warfare, and logistics.
	www.hawaii.navy.mil /PMRF/PMRF_RangeSites.htm (604 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		BARKING SANDS, Kauai -- The sand-swept dunes and vast ocean waters of the Pacific Missile Range Facility are in a crossfire as a new round of hearings begins next week on the Navy's proposal to test its newest defense against ballistic missiles beginning in 1999.
		Mullins, who was commander of the Pacific Missile Range Facility from 1991-94, said: "We always made it known that the future of the base was to market itself for test and evaluation programs" like the one being proposed now.
		Soto does not believe that the Kauai missile intercepts will be "visible to the naked eye" since he estimates that the ships firing the interceptor missiles would be at least 100 miles off the island.
	starbulletin.com /97/06/13/news/story1.html (1760 words)

	Ni'ihau under fire...literally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The pacific Missile Range Facility is preparing an environmental impact statement on the proposals for new missile launch sites, and has scheduled public meetings on Kauai and Oahu, starting next week.
		Pacific Missile Range Facility public affairs officer Vida Mossman said the Navy has a $270,000 annual contract with Niihau Ranch for the maintenance of the radar site.
		Bowlin said the Theater Ballistic Missile Defense program is a "small, incremental increase in what we're already doing." But he said it could involve as much as $50 million in construction of new facilities at the West Kauai range.
	www.kekiai.org /niihau/niihau.html (1812 words)

	Kauai Garden Island News
		MANA — The Pacific Missile Range Facility is a small speck on a national scale, but a massive player in the area of national security.
		PMRF is on the forefront of testing for the sea-based U.S. Navy Aegis Missile system and land-based U.S. Army Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile testing system.
		The seventh and eighth Aegis test launches occurred at PMRF Barking Sands last year while the first THAAD system test is scheduled for the end of this year, or early 2007.
	www.kauaiworld.com /articles/2006/04/04/news/news01.txt (882 words)

	Department of Defense Range Tours - Fish & Wildlife - Sierra Club
		Range Tours allow the military and environmental communities to explore ideas for balancing the protection of wildlife and native plant habitat with the training demands of our nation's military.
		Kauai: The U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility
		Range Tours allow the two communities to see the same ground through the lens of the other, engage in dialogue at the facility, and explore new visions for protecting wildlife and native plant habitat while balancing the training demands of our nation's military.
	www.sierraclub.org /wildlife/species/range_tour (649 words)

	Navy tests missiles from range on Kauai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Pacific Missile Range Facility on the west tip of Kauai is the designated test site for the Navy's new missiles, which are designed to hit and destroy enemy rockets above the atmosphere.
		The two missiles fired this week were variants of the Standard Missile 2, the current weapon used to protect Navy ships from cruise missiles and aircraft attack.
		The improved Standard Missile 2 is slated to become the Navy's weapon for knocking down incoming missiles at medium ranges, and is expected to be operational in about five years.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/amissile.htm (209 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Four missiles, two short range and two intermediate range, were launched from the missile range, joining a cruise missile that had been launched from a jet.
		The Navy’s goal in this exercise, called Pacific Blitz, was primarily to test its ability to locate and track such missiles, to coordinate between ships and air and ground forces, and also to test the missile range’s ability to conduct a very complex test.
		Admirals were profuse in their praise for facilities at the Pacific Missile Range Facility and by the success of the latest test of the Navy’s theater ballistic missile defense program.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Jun/09/localnews2.html (438 words)

	CBS News \| Navy Aces Missile Test \| November 22, 2002 07:01:17
		A defensive missile (left) is launched from the USS Lake Erie, in pursuit of its target (right), an Aries missile launched in Kauai, Hawaii.
		from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands toward the Pacific Ocean and was intercepted within four minutes on the ascent by another missile launched from the cruiser USS Lake Erie, the Department of Defense said.
		In June, a dummy missile launched at the same Navy base was struck down by an interceptor missile fired from some 200 miles out at sea in an exercise to show that a rocket guided by a warship's radar system can knock down a medium- or long-range missile under controlled conditions.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/03/15/attack/main503837.shtml (369 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Ballistic Missile Defense Test Successful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The target was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Hawaii's oldest island, Kauai.
		The missile, part of the Aegis Weapon System, intercepted a target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai Dec. 11.
		About two minutes later, the missile's kinetic warhead acquired, tracked and diverted the target, using only the force of the direct collision to destroy the target — "hit to kill" technology.
	www.pentagon.gov /news/Dec2003/n12122003_200312121.html (513 words)

	FLIGHT TESTS FOR AEGIS BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE - CDI
		This test was the first launch of the SM-3 missile, which showed a successful second and third stage separation and flight endurance – once it launched (it actually was supposed to be launched on Sept. 23, but did not fire due to a computer error; the test had to be repeated the following day).
		An SM-3 missile was launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie to counter an Orbital Sciences Test Target Vehicle that was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kaui, Hawaii.
		The SM-3 missile had an altitude of 93 miles at the time of impact; because of this, its flight time was shorter by about a minute and a half.
	www.cdi.org /missile-defense/tests-aegis.cfm (579 words)

	CNN.com - Missile misses target, officials call it a success - Jun. 19, 2003 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Missile Defense Agency conducted a missile defense test over Hawaii Wednesday, and while the warhead did not strike the target, officials said they still considered the exercise a success.
		ET), a target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Taylor said.
		About two minutes later, a standard missile-3 (SM-3), the developmental missile for the Aegis program, was launched from the USS Lake Erie, about 160 nautical miles off the coast of Kauai, he said.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2003/US/West/06/19/missle.defense.test/index.html (444 words)

	Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance Media Gallery - 11/17/05 SM-3 Missile Intercept Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Medium-Range Separating TargetA medium-range separating target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Hawaii, during today's joint MDA and U.S. Navy intercept flight test.
		SM-3 Missile LaunchA Standard Missile - 3 (SM-3) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test.
		The test was the sixth intercept, in seven flight tests, by the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, the maritime component of the andquot;Hit-to-Killandquot; Ballistic Missile Defense System, being developed by the Missile Defense Agency.
	www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=27 (457 words)

	Kauai Garden Island News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Col. Charles H. Driessnack of the THADD Project Office and Capt. Jeff Connelly of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Mana welcome guests to tour one of the THADD facilities that was dedicated Wedenesday.
		Along with a blessing of the five new facilities built in the past 18 months, PMRF Commander, Capt. Robert Jeff Connelly welcomed Army Col. Charles H. Driessnack and his Theater High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program to the PMRF community.
		PMRF will now be the home to two parts of the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program, as the Navy's Aegis sea-based system already has been testing ballistic defense missiles at the Westside base.
	www.kauaiworld.com /articles/2004/09/16/news/news02.txt (523 words)

	Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Intercepts Challenging Ballistic Missile Target (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the operationally realistic scenario, the SM-3 was launched from USS Lake Erie, an Aegis BMD cruiser, and hit the target missile that had been launched from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
		A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the vertical launch system (VLS) aboard the Pearl Harbor based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test.
		Raytheon's missile defense hit-to-kill successes with the Standard Missile-3 occurred on Jan. 25, June 13 and Nov. 21, 2002; Dec. 11, 2003; and Feb. 24, 2005.
	kuku.sawf.org /News/3988.aspx (898 words)

	Raytheon Solipsys - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai — Solipsys personnel and technologies played important roles in last week’s successful Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.
		The test event, denoted as FM- 6, demonstrated a number of key missile defense capabilities, including the ability to provide hostile missile launch early warning from a more advantageously positioned detection platform to a combatant capable of missile counter measures.
		The hostile missile was launched from PMRF and the successful interception was performed by the USS Lake Erie.
	www.solipsys.com /news_article.php?id=100 (246 words)

	Pacific Fleet Online
		The ship had been conducting unit level operations at the range all week and managed to sandwich the port visit between ops.
		The transportation department at PMRF loaned out two 12-passenger vans and one sedan to the ship for shuttling the Sailors around town, and taxis waited outside the gate to ferry them to specific destinations.
		PMRF’s MWR department ran a number of tours throughout the port visit as well.
	www.cpf.navy.mil /news_images/0510/051028f.htm (483 words)

	MDA Link
		On December 18, 2005 the eighth interceptor missile was emplaced at Ft. Greely, Alaska.
		The second interceptor missile designed to intercept and destroy a long-range ballistic missile is emplaced into its underground silo at Fort Greely, Alaska on September 4, 2004.
		The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced Dec. 11 it was not able to complete a test involving the planned intercept of a long-range ballistic missile target over the central Pacific Ocean when the exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) interceptor and the booster rocket failed to separate, preventing the EKV from engaging the target warhead in space.
	www.mda.mil /mdalink/html/nmdimg.html (2025 words)

	APL contributions are integral part of missile defense test
		Thursday's successful Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept test was due, in part, to the critical engineering and technical direction provided by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md. This milestone event was the first Aegis BMD engagement against a medium-range ballistic missile target with a separating warhead/reentry vehicle.
		This test is a further demonstration of the Aegis BMD capability to respond to short-notice ballistic missile defense missions.
		This intercept test involved an SM-3 Block I missile fired from the Aegis BMD cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) against a target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, resulting in a direct hit and kill of the target payload.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-11/jhu-aca111805.php (722 words)

	Pacific Missile Range Facility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Located in Hawaii on the western shores of Kauai, the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Barking Sands is the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training range.
		PMRF is the only range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously.
		There are over 1100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Missile_Range_Facility (152 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The Missile Defense Agency is developing the BMDS to provide an integrated “layered defense” against ballistic missiles of all ranges, in all regions of the world and in all phases of flight.
		A Minuteman III ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Lake Erie, stationed approximately 100 miles off the coast, detected and tracked the LRBM in its boost phase of flight — an Aegis first.
		The objective of Pacific Explorer I, conducted July 16 to Aug. 6, 2003, was to demonstrate the ability to transmit Aegis BMD track data, via satellite Link 16, from an Aegis ballistic missile defense ship located in the western Pacific to a continental U.S. test site for the Army’s ground-based element of the BMDS.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/sep_04_41.php (1717 words)

	Yorkshire CND - Navy Shoots Down Missile in Test Near Hawaii - 25/5/06
		During the Navy and Missile Defense Agency test, Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie, equipped with technology to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles, launched a Standard Missile 2 to intercept a missile fired from the Pacific Missile Range facility on Kauai, Hawaii.
		The interceptor is part of the Missile Defense Agency's multibillion-dollar program to protect the United States and its allies from an enemy missile attack.
		The November test used the Standard Missile 3 interceptor which is designed to shoot down mid-range targets and not the longer range targets the SM-2 missile is designed for.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/hawaii_test.htm (705 words)

	First at-Sea Demonstration of Sea-Based Terminal Capability Successfully Completed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		060525-N-0000X-001 Pacific Ocean (May 25, 2006) - A standard missile - 2 (SM-2) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) as part of a U.S. Navy missile defense demonstration.
		The demonstration, in cooperation with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), was the first sea-based intercept of a ballistic missile in its terminal phase.
		The modified Aegis Weapon System and the modified SM-2 Block IV provided the firing ship the capability to guide the missile to achieve either a direct body-to-body hit between the interceptor and the threat or a near-direct hit where the high pressure, heat and fragments are placed on the threat by a blast fragmentation warhead.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=23840 (696 words)

	Pacific Missile Range Facility RCS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pacific Missile Range Facility starts the new year with a new range communication system.
		PMRF is the world's largest instrumented multi- environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations.
		A thousand square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace make PMRF a premier facility for supporting operations which vary from small, single-unit exercises up to large, multiple-unit battle group scenarios.
	www.compunetix.com /ix/fsd/new/197.html (295 words)

	Pacific Missile Range Facility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Senator Inouye also ensured the long term future of PMRF by obtaining Congressional and Navy approval designating PMRF as the primary test range for the Navy Lower Tier and Upper Tier missile defense flight tests to develop improved, shipborne defenses against theater ballistic missiles.
		In addition, Senator Inouye underscored, through legislation, PMRF's unique RDT&E test and operational training capabilities and urged that it be identified as a member of DoD's Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) as well as a fundamental part of the tactical training range infrastructure.
		Additionally, at Senator Inouye's request, $3 million was provided to PMRF to improve its infrastructure, on and off base, that is critical to its operation and expansion.
	www.senate.gov /~inouye/acc2/1993/2001706742.html (269 words)

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