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WASHINGTON, Mar 10 (Reuters): The US general in charge of the Pentagon's missile defense programme said Wednesday he was very disappointed with two recent test failures, but promised another attempt to shoot down a target missile over the Pacific Ocean in coming weeks. "The hard things about missile defense we are accomplishing. It's the easy things we are having trouble with, like arms moving out of the way," Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering told reporters in a telephone interview. Obering confirmed preliminary indications that the failure of an interceptor missile to fire from its mid-Pacific base at a speeding target on Feb. 14 was caused when one of three supporting arms inside the interceptor's silo did not fall free of the weapon.
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