The January flight test failure of a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile interceptor does not have “fleetwide” implications affecting other SM-3 variants or other missile systems in the U.S. inventory, according to the office of the Pentagon's top weapons developer which raised the specter of such ramifications this spring. In April , Michael Griffin, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said the then-ongoing investigation into the cause of the Jan. 31 Flight Test Standard Missile-29 (FTM-29) failure...
