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India Tests Submarine-Launched Supersonic Missile
India successfully test fired a submarine-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on Wednesday, the BrahMos Aerospace Russian-Indian company said. The missile was launched vertically from a submerged platform in the Bay of Bengal and flew its complete range of over 290 kilometers, BrahMos chief executive Sivathanu Pillai said. Ship- and ground-launched versions of [...]
India aborts testing of new cruise missile
The maiden flight of India’s first domestically developed long-range cruise missile was aborted midway on Tuesday after it veered off course, defence scientists said. The two-stage Nirbhay missile blasted off from the eastern state of Orissa but the test flight was halted prematurely to “ensure coastal safety”, the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) [...]
Impressions on China’s Second Missile Interceptor Test
China is reported to have conducted the second test of its missile interceptor system on January 27, 2013 in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.1 Quite symbolic of China’s postural patterns, the reported test comes exactly three years (and 16 days) after the first test of its ballistic missile defence (BMD) system on January 11, 2010. [...]
Russian Navy Testing Missile Defense System in Caspian
The coastal missile unit of the Russian Navy’s Caspian Flotilla is conducting a series of exercises to practice using the Navy’s only Bal coastal missile system, a representative of the Southern Military District said Wednesday. Participants are learning how to detect and track air- and sea-based targets, organize communications and process and transmit data that [...]
Enhanced Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Successful In Non-Intercept Flight Test
Raytheon Company’s upgraded Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle played a mission-critical role in a non-intercept flight test of Boeing’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense program. The EKV is a vital component of the GMD’s Ground-Based Interceptor. The EKV allows the GBI to lock on and eliminate high-speed ballistic missile warheads in space using nothing more than the force of [...]
India Tests Sea-Based Brahmos Missile
The Indian Navy successfully tested on Wednesday a highly-maneuverable version of a sea-based Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, an Indian defense source told RIA Novosti. The missile was fired from an unspecified warship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal in a 34th test by the Indian military. The source said the missile made [...]
India Test fires Agni-1 Ballistic Missile
One of the Missile Units of Strategic Forces Command (SFC) fired the long range Agni-1 missile from the range facility at Wheelers Island, off the Odisha coast today. The trajectory of the missile which was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, observation stations and Naval Ships, fully met the tasked technical parameters The DRDO [...]
North Korea launches long-range rocket
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Wednesday, in defiance of UN sanctions threats over what Pyongyang’s critics insist is a disguised ballistic missile test. “It (the rocket) has been launched,” a South Korean defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating further. The Yonhap news agency, citing a government source, said the rocket had taken [...]
Chronology of North Korean missile development
North Korea on Wednesday launched a long-range rocket which Japanese authorities said passed over its southern island chain of Okinawa. It was the second launch this year, after a failed attempt in April. North Korea has said the rocket is aimed at putting a satellite in orbit, but much of the international community sees the [...]
