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MEADS Intercepts Air-Breathing Target at White Sands Missile Range
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) detected, tracked, intercepted and destroyed an air-breathing target in its first-ever intercept flight test at W...
Missile test fears shadow S. Korea-China talks
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
South Korea's top nuclear envoy left for China Thursday for talks on North Korea, shadowed by signs that Pyongyang is preparing an imminent long-range missile t...
Raytheon opens new Standard Missile factory in Alabama
Nov 28, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon has opened its new all-up-round Standard Missile production facility in Huntsville, Ala. At the cutting-edge factory, workers will complete final assem...
Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile
Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistan on Wednesday test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile with a range of 1,300 kilometres (800 miles), the military said. The military described the...
Turkey insists Patriots would be 'purely defensive'
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
The Turkish army insisted Monday that any deployment by NATO of Patriot missiles on the border with Syria would be used for defensive purposes only and not to l...
Hamas arsenal hit but rocket know-how intact
Nov 25, 2012 (AFP)
The distinctive whoosh of a longer-range rocket leaving Gaza set sirens wailing in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem within minutes, as Hamas militants broke new ground in ...
N. Korea preparing for missile launch
Nov 23, 2012 (AFP)
US satellites have picked up signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range missile, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday. North Korea moved miss...
South Korea deploys new cruise missiles: report
Nov 23, 2012 (AFP)
South Korea has begun fitting naval destroyers with a new, indigenously-developed cruise missile capable of making precision strikes anywhere in North Korea, a ...
India tests missile interceptor
Nov 23, 2012 (UPI)
India has test-fired a ballistic missile interceptor as part of its efforts to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles, defense officials said. The indi...
India steps up cruise missile production
Nov 20, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
A plant in Trivandrum, Kerala, has launched India's second line to assemble BraMos cruise missiles. The first line of this kind, built in Hyderabad, already tur...
Iran denies supplying Fajr 5 rockets to Gaza
Nov 17, 2012 (AFP)
A senior Iranian official has denied his country supplied the Fajr 5 missiles which Palestinian militants have been firing at Tel Aviv, Iran's Al-Alam televisio...
N. Korea shipped missile parts to Syria: media
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
North Korea tried to export ballistic missile parts to Syria in May in violation of UN sanctions, Japanese media said Wednesday, citing diplomats who have seen ...
Patriot Air and Missile Defense System receives US Army stamp of approval
Nov 13, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon new-production Patriot Air and Missile Defense System has received the U.S. Army's final stamp of approval after undergoing stringent testing. During t...
India to buy Russia's Konkurs-M, Invar guided missiles
Nov 12, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
India has signed a deal with Russia to purchase cutting-edge Konkurs-M and Invar anti-tank guided missiles, a source in the Indian defense ministry has told the...
Taiwan tests new anti-ship missile: report
Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan tested its longest range ship-to-ship missile within a month of China putting its first aircraft carrier into service, a report said Monday. Dubbed an "a...
Russian FM says Syria rebels have 50 Stingers
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Syrian rebels under increasing attack from regime warplanes have obtained 50 Stinger shoulder-launched missiles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in ...
Raytheon's Excalibur Ib demonstrates accuracy during flight tests
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon has fired eight precision-guided Excalibur Ib projectiles during qualification flight tests. All eight rounds landed within five meters of the target, ...
New TOW missile achieves 100th direct hit in latest testing
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Army achieved excellence in recent flight tests of the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless (TOW) missile. In September, the...
Lockheed Martin Introduces Advanced Air and Missile C2 System
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
In response to the increasingly complex national and multi-national requirements for Integrated Air and Missile Defense, Lockheed Martin has developed a solutio...
Boeing Non-kinetic Missile Records First Operational Test Flight
Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)
A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collatera...
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