WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department has changed course in its plan to defend Europe and deployed forces from ballistic missile threats and will now pursue a more mobile and flexible architecture based on the Raytheon-built Standard Missile (SM)-3 interceptor, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Sept. 17.

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