<span style="color: #222222;">The US military yesterday successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile  in a test of a new interceptor system. It is co-developed with Japan and has been dogged by previous failures.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">     </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said  that sailors aboard the USS John Finn successfully detected, tracked and targeted the rocket with an SM-3 Block IIA missile during a test off the west coast of Hawaii. The successful operation comes after two failed intercept tests, in June 2017 and January 2018.</span><br />