The Missile Defense Agency plans to conduct a key flight test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor this month over the Atlantic Ocean as part of a major NATO-led, live-fire integrated air and missile defense exercise. The event has implications for long-delayed Pentagon plans to proceed with full-rate production of the Raytheon-built weapon. According to a former Pentagon official, MDA has scrapped plans for Flight Test Standard Missile-26 -- slated as an additional intercept flight test to support an...