DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two ballistic missiles Thursday and flew warplanes, while claiming its recent blitz of sanctions-busting tests were necessary countermeasures against joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. As the United Nations Security Council met to discuss Pyongyang’s Tuesday launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, North Korea blamed Washington […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-missiles-flies-warplanes-as-it-blames-us-for-escalation-79480/

DefenceTalkThe South Korean and US militaries fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said Wednesday. Nuclear-armed North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to issue evacuation warnings for some […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-us-fire-missiles-in-response-to-north-korea-test-79477/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two ballistic missiles early on Saturday, South Korea’s military said, the nuclear-armed country’s fourth launch this week as Seoul, Tokyo and Washington ramp up joint military drills to counter Pyongyang. South Korea, Japan and the US staged anti-submarine drills Friday — the first in five years — just days after Washington and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missiles-79467/

DefenceTalkIran unveiled a new medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday during a military parade commemorating the Iran-Iraq war, state television said. “The liquid-fueled Rezvan ballistic missile has an operational range of 1,400 kilometers (870 miles),” said the station, which aired images of the missile mounted on a military vehicle. The Rezvan missile was presented in Tehran […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveils-new-medium-range-missile-79425/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea launched at least one ballistic missile into waters off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, after Seoul and Washington staged their first joint drills involving a US aircraft carrier in more than four years. Pyongyang has doubled down on upgrading its weapons programme this year despite facing crippling economic sanctions. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-launches-unidentified-ballistic-missile-seoul-78889/

DefenceTalkSecretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III exemplified how a responsible nuclear nation should behave and postponed a long-planned test launch of an American Minuteman III rocket, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said today during a news conference.   Austin’s order is in direct contrast to the irresponsible actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin […]https://www.defencetalk.com/austin-postpones-test-of-minuteman-iii-missile-78240/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of over 700 kilometres (430 miles), local media reported, following months of tensions with arch-enemy the United States. The missile, dubbed “Zolfaghar Basir”, is the naval variant of the surface-to-surface Zolfaghar ballistic missile, according to Tasnim news agency. Its range […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-guards-unveil-new-naval-ballistic-missile-76393/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIran on Thursday unveiled two missiles it said had a bigger range than before, naming them after commanders killed in January by a US strike in Iraq. “Regarding cruise missiles, today we have gone from a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) in less than two years,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, during […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-unveils-missiles-with-increased-range-76193/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles on Monday, the South’s military said, weeks after Pyongyang threatened to demonstrate a “new strategic weapon” and its deadline for Washington to offer sanctions relief expired. The launch was the nuclear-armed North’s first for more than three months and came as nuclear negotiations with […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-short-range-ballistic-missiles-74523/

The United States tested a medium-range ballistic missile on Thursday (Dec 12), the second test in four months of an offensive missile that would have been banned by a US-Russia arms treaty that Washington exited in August. The Air Force launched the conventionally configured missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles at […]