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A Standard Missile (SM 2) is fired from a launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) in the Atlantic Ocean on March 21, 2012. The Farragut is participating in a group sail with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and six other ships.

A Standard Missile (SM 2) is fired from a launcher during a live-fire exercise.

A Standard Missile (SM 2) is fired from a launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) in the Atlantic Ocean on March 21, 2012. The Farragut is participating in a group sail with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and six other ships.

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