{"id":383057,"date":"2018-10-31T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-intercepts-medium-range-missiles-in-test\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:27:41","slug":"presstv-us-intercepts-medium-range-missiles-in-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-intercepts-medium-range-missiles-in-test\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US intercepts medium-range missiles in test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military said it successfully tested a key missile defense system on October 26 in a milestone that experts say shows a growing US capability to knock down\u00a0medium-range missiles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the second successful intercept in a row for the SM-3 IIA, which will give the US Missile Defense Agency more confidence that it has resolved design flaws that previously caused intercept failures, US officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said the successful test moved the system closer to production. Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote testing and development of missile defense systems, said the test would also keep plans on track to eventually deploy the system in Poland.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/31\/578592\/US-intercepts-mediumrange-missile-in-test\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military said it successfully tested a key missile defense system on October 26 in a milestone that experts say shows a growing US capability to knock down\u00a0medium-range missiles.\u00a0 It was the second successful intercept in a row for the SM-3 IIA, which will give the US Missile Defense Agency more confidence that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}