DefenceTalkNorth Korea test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea off its west coast Friday in an operation apparently supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un amid heightened military tensions, a South Korean military spokesman said. The missiles were launched from a base on the west coast and flew more than 100 kilometres (60 miles), the spokesman for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-four-short-range-missiles-into-sea-63729/

DefenceTalkUndisclosed location (Pakistan), Mar.9 (ANI): Pakistan test-fired its surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen III,which is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads upto a range of 2750-kilometers. A Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) release said the test launch was aimed at validating various design and technical parameters of the weapon system at maximum range. The successful launch […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-test-fires-nuclear-capable-ballistic-missile-2-63410/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two missiles into the sea and vowed “merciless” retaliation on Monday as the US and South Korea kicked off joint military drills, denounced by Pyongyang as recklessly confrontational. The annual exercises always trigger a surge in military tensions and warlike rhetoric on the divided peninsula, and analysts saw the North’s missile tests […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-test-fires-2-short-range-missiles-63319/

DefenceTalkIndia has successfully test-flown a nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface missile from a test range in the eastern state of Odisha. The Prithvi-II missile was launched Thursday by personnel of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) from a road mobile launcher at 9.15 am, The Hindu, an English-language daily newspaper, reports. Around seven minutes later the missile splashed down […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-test-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-3-63247/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company and the U.S. Air Force completed two successful Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) all-up round live fire test flights that demonstrated the weapon’s ability to detect, track and destroy moving targets. The flight tests, which took place at the White Sands Missile Test Range, are the final flight events required prior to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/small-diameter-bomb-ii-completes-live-fire-tests-63128/

DefenceTalkFollowing system validation one year ago, Diehl Defence’s IRIS-T Surface Launched (IRIS-T SL) demonstrated its full performance as the most advanced Short to Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM). During this final firing campaign, concluding guided missile qualification at the Overberg Test Range in South Africa in January 2015, three guided firings were executed in different […]https://www.defencetalk.com/diehl-iris-t-sl-missile-qualifies-after-latest-firing-tests-62842/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea test-fired five short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast Sunday, raising cross-border tensions ahead of Seoul’s planned joint army drills with the US. The North fired the missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) from its eastern city of Wonsan between 4:20-5:10 pm, (0720-0810 GMT) Seoul’s defence ministry spokesman told […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-short-range-missiles-into-sea-62799/

DefenceTalkPakistan on Monday conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) “Ra’ad”, said an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release. The Ra’ad missile, with a range of 350 km, enables Pakistan to achieve ‘strategic standoff capability’ on land and at sea. “Cruise Technology” is extremely complex and has […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-flight-tests-air-launched-cruise-missile-alcm-raad-62497/

DefenceTalkIndia on Saturday succeeded for the first time in using a mobile launcher to test-fire a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead deep inside rival China. Although Saturday’s launch was the third test of the Agni V missile, it was the first time the weapon had been fired from a so-called canister mounted […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-tests-long-range-missile-from-mobile-launcher-62494/

DefenceTalkRussia has kicked off its first unannounced drills of the year for the country’s Strategic Missile Forces with over 1,200 active duty servicemen in western Siberia, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Egorov said Tuesday. “During the unannounced exercises of the missile forces, a committee will study the current condition in organizing activities by the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-test-strategic-missile-forces-in-unscheduled-drills-62078/