A ballistic threat target missile launches from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii, Nov. 1, 2008, en route to an intercept over an open ocean area northwest of Kauai in support of Pacific Blitz 08. The target was successfully intercepted by a Standard Missile - 3 (SM-3) launched from the Pearl Harbor-based guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60).