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For the second time in as many months, a test of the Pentagon's missile defense system has ended in fiasco with an interceptor missile failing to launch from its silo, defense officials said.

The Missile Defense Agency said the failure became apparent when an interceptor that was supposed to shoot down an incoming target missile carrying a mock warhead did not take off from the Ronald Reagan Test Site located on the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific.

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However, it was the second failed test in a row for the beleaguered national missile defense system whose deployment was championed by President George W. Bush in his first term as a means of defending the country against missiles launched by "rogue states" such as North Korea or Iran.

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The failure was likely to further delay the declaration of the system, which is projected to cost more than 50 billion dollars over the next five years, "operational."