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Missiles and Rockets
*Agni 5 makes successful maiden flight
India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted the first flight of its Agni 5 ballistic missile from a rail-mounted launcher on Wheeler ...
30-Apr-2012
*Pakistan flies new Shaheen variant
Pakistan flight tested an improved version of its Hatf IV Shaheen ballistic missile on 25 April. Designated Shaheen-1A, it was described as "an improved ...
30-Apr-2012
*South Korea reveals new cruise and ballistic missiles
South Korea has developed and deployed a new cruise missile with a range of more than 1,000 km and a tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missile ...
30-Apr-2012
*Reason for Unha 3 launch failure remains unknown
More than a week after North Korea's attempt to launch the Kwangmyongsong-3 imaging satellite using the country's indigenous Unha 3 satellite launch vehicle (SLV) ...
30-Apr-2012
*North Korea flexes its missile muscle
Transporter erector launchers (TELs) carrying what seemed to be a new long-range ballistic missile were a highlight of a parade in Pyongyang, capital of ...
27-Apr-2012
SSBN(X) unaffordable under current shipbuilding budget
The US Navy (USN) has set up an affordability group under the Program Executive Office (PEO) Submarines to apply cost-related lessons from recent US ...
26-Apr-2012
US details TLAM use against Libya
Two hundred and thirty Block III and IV Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) were used in operations against Libya in 2011, Rear Admiral William ...
23-Apr-2012
Delays hit Russia's fourth Borey-class submarine
The formal keel-laying and naming ceremony for Russia's fourth Project 955 Borey-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine (SSBN), which has been unofficially referred to as...
29-Mar-2012
New cruise missile enters Russian Air Force service
A new cruise missile has entered service with the Russian Air Force's Long-Range Aviation branch (Dalnaya Aviatsiya), Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov revealed on ...
28-Mar-2012
More Russian ICBMs scheduled for destruction
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) plans to award a follow-on contract to Russia's Centre for Operation of Space-Based Infrastructure (TsENKI) under the ...
21-Mar-2012
US seeks report on Chinese assistance to Iran's missile and nuclear programmes
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission plans to commission an unclassified report on relations between China and Iran. The report will have a...
21-Mar-2012
Upgrade released for Tomahawk control system
After a five-year design, development and test programme, the US Navy's Program Executive Office, Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation, and PMA-280, Tomahawk Weapons System, ...
21-Mar-2012
North Korea to launch Earth observation satellite
North Korea's Committee for Space Technology plans to launch a polar-orbiting Earth observation satellite between 12 and 18 April, the organisation announced on 16 ...
21-Mar-2012
Trident II D5 missile makes 137th successful test flight
The US Navy (USN) has conducted the 137th successful test flight of the Trident II D5 missile since 1989, Lockheed Martin announced on 14 ...
21-Mar-2012
North Korea agrees to suspend long-range missile launches
North Korea has agreed to implement a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear tests and nuclear activities at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities, it ...
05-Mar-2012
Russia prepares to deploy Bulava-armed submarines
High-ranking Russian officials have given details of the planned introduction of the new Borey class of Bulava-armed ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). After a ...
05-Mar-2012
Sineva SLBMs to be upgraded to Layner
The Russian Federation Navy's R-29RMU2 liquid-fuel RSM-54 (SS-N-23 'Skiff') Sineva submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) will be upgraded to Layner standard during 2012, according to...
05-Mar-2012
*Iran's Bid Ganeh site may have been working on ICBMs
An Iranian military facility devastated by a major explosion on 12 November 2011 had been "getting ready to produce a missile with a range ...
02-Mar-2012
New START missile test telemetry exchange agreement signed
The US and Russia signed an agreement in Geneva on 7 February for exchange of missile test telemetry data under the provisions of the ...
02-Mar-2012
Plesetsk engineer convicted of selling missile data to CIA
A senior engineer formerly employed at Russia's Plesetsk launch site has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of selling data on missile ...
22-Feb-2012
*Minuteman second-stage motor test-fired at AEDC
One of the final solid-propellant rocket motors produced for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to leave the assembly line has been test-fired ...
22-Feb-2012
*France completes 40 years of SNLE patrols
France's force of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines - classified as Sous-marin Nucléaire Lanceur d'Engins (SNLE) - has completed 40 years of operational service, the ...
03-Feb-2012
Russia says Iran lacks ICBM technology
Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces (SRF) have claimed that Iran cannot currently produce strategic missiles. "Iran does not have the technologies to create medium and ...
02-Feb-2012
China conducts Julang-2 SLBM firings
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence has confirmed that the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) test-fired a number of Julang-2 (JL-2) submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...
20-Jan-2012
Russia tests ageing Stiletto
Russia successfully launched a UR-100NU (SS-19 'Stiletto') intercontinental ballistic missile from the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan on 27 December 2011. According to a ...
06-Jan-2012
India to flight-test Nirbhay land attack cruise missile
India's indigenous subsonic Nirbhay land attack cruise missile will commence flight-testing in 2012, Dr V K Saraswat, head of the Defence Research and Development ...
04-Jan-2012
Salvo launch clears Bulava to enter service
Russia's successful launch of a salvo of two Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missiles on 23 December 2011 has cleared the new missile to enter operational ...
04-Jan-2012
Indian submarine missile launches could affect endangered wildlife
An Indian Navy proposal for temporary use of Tillanchang Island in the Indian Ocean for missile firings from submarines could have an impact on ...
29-Dec-2011
*Agni 1 launch helps train Indian missile operators
An Agni 1 ballistic missile was successfully flight-tested from Wheeler Island, off the coast of Orissa, India, at 0930 on 1 December by the...
22-Dec-2011
Russia gives the go-ahead for new heavy ICBM
Russia will develop a new liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) intended to penetrate the US missile-defence system, Lietenant General Sergei Karakayev, head of Russia's ...
21-Dec-2011
*Astute fires first Tomahawk missiles
HMS Astute, the first of the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarines, launched two Tomahawk missiles from periscope depth in the Gulf...
29-Nov-2011
*UN claims new evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons programme
Iran may have conducted preparatory experiments useful for future tests of nuclear explosive devices, a new report from the International Atomics Energy Agency revealed ...
29-Nov-2011
ATK and USAF test Large Class Stage III rocket motor
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and the United States Air Force (USAF) has successfully tested the company's newly developed Large Class Stage III solid rocket motor ...
29-Nov-2011
India to test Agni 5
India plans to conduct the first test flight of its Agni 5 5,000 km-range ballistic missile sometime between December 2011 and February 2012, V ...
29-Nov-2011
Israel tests ballistic missile
Israel test-fired a ballistic missile from its Palmachim base south of Tel Aviv on 2 November. The Israeli Defence Ministry declined to comment on ...
29-Nov-2011
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