The United States military announced today the test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, which had been delayed to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing during a show of force by China near Taiwan earlier this month. China deployed dozens of aircraft and fired live missiles into the Taiwan Strait after US House Speaker Nancy […]
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile
North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang region eastward following a visit by a U.S. government special envoy to South Korea and a day after the completion of three days of joint US military exercises. “Our armed forces have detected the launch of eight short-range ballistic missiles from the Sunan section of […]
North Korea launches three ballistic missiles – One of them intercontinental
North Korea has launched three “ballistic missiles of unknown type” to the east, the sea area called the Korean Sea on the Korean Peninsula and the Sea of Japan in Tokyo, the US General Staff said in Seoul. Biden in the city, when they agreed with their South Korean counterpart Yoon Sok-gel to intensify joint […]
North Korea launches ‘unknown type’ ballistic missile
North Korea today launched a ballistic missile, according to South Korea’s General Staff, a week after’s leader Kim Jong Un promised to accelerate the development of Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. The new weapons test, the 14th this year, comes as Seoul and Washington estimate that North Korea may resume nuclear weapons tests, which it announced a […]
Russia plans to develop the first unit armed with Sarmat ballistic missiles
LAST UPDATE: 13:40 Russia plans to deploy the first military unit armed with Sarmat ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads by autumn at the latest, the TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian intelligence service. The unit will be located near the Krasnoyarsk region, about 3,000 kilometers east […]
New US sanctions on entities linked to North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles
The United States today imposed new economic sanctions on five North Korean entities accused of being “directly linked” to the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles by Pyongyang, which in late March violated a 2017 moratorium on such weapons. “This is the third in a series of US sanctions against North Korea since March, targeting the […]
South Korea: President Moon Jae-in Condemns North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile
South Korean President Moon Jae-in strongly condemned the North Korean launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier today and the fact that the North Korean leader violated the moratorium that had been declared by the , according to its services. Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Makoto Oniki noted that the rocket launched today from Pyongyang looks […]
South Korea says North Korea will test intercontinental ballistic missile ‘immediately’
The South Korean government believes that North Korea is preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, possibly even within a week, according to media sources close to the government, who did not name. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are rising as indications grow that Pyongyang may soon act on its threat to resume such weapons […]
Iran: Launches ballistic missiles as part of military exercises
Iran today fired several ballistic missiles at various targets in the southern part of the country, on the last day of the exercises organized by the Revolutionary Guards. “The high schools were organized in response to the threats posed by the Zionist regime in recent days,” General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the armed […]
The United States has allocated $ 10 billion to protect against a nuclear attack. The main thing is that no one attacks until 2029
US defense company Lockheed Martin received another $ 4.9 billion in addition to $ 2.9 billion in August 2018 to create a triad of satellites for early registration of missile attacks. Writes about this Space.com. These devices will monitor the Earth’s surface from a geostationary orbit (~ 36,000 km), and if conventional China or […]