DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Navy, and sailors at the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex and Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), successfully conducted the first flight test involving components of the Aegis Ashore system. During the test, a simulated ballistic missile target was acquired, tracked, and engaged by the Aegis Weapon System. At […]https://www.defencetalk.com/standard-missile-completes-first-test-launch-from-aegis-ashore-test-site-59674/

DefenceTalkRussia on Tuesday carried out a successful test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, news agencies reported citing the defence ministry, amid a standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine. Interfax and ITAR-TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying a successful test of the RS-12M Topol ICBM had been carried out from Russia’s Kapustin Yar […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-conducts-test-launch-of-ballistic-missile-59655/

DefenceTalkRussia on Thursday test-launched several ballistic missiles during planned exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin, news reports said, as a crisis raged in neighboring Ukraine. The Russian military fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from its northern test site in Plesetsk, as well as “several” shorter-range missiles from its submarines in the Northern and Pacific […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-several-ballistic-missiles-59530/

DefenceTalkIndia successfully test-fired a new anti-ballistic missile on Sunday in a step towards developing a missile defence system which only an elite club of countries has built. India, which shares borders with arch-rival Pakistan and giant China, both of whom are nuclear-armed, is developing the system that aims to shield it against a ballistic missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-test-fires-anti-ballistic-missile-59420/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Strategic Missile Forces test-fired on Monday an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from a launch site in northwest Russia, the Defense Ministry said. According to a ministry’s spokesman, Col. Igor Yegorov, the launch was carried out at 10.40 a.m. Moscow time (06:40 GMT) from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk space center. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-tests-fires-yars-ballistic-missile-59316/

DefenceTalkSouth Korea said Friday it had successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile capable of carrying a one-tonne payload to any part of North Korea. The launch was carried out March 23, just two days before North Korea test fired two medium-range ballistic missiles capable of striking Japan. The announcement of the test is likely to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-tests-missile-bringing-entire-north-in-range-59261/

DefenceTalkJapan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any ballistic missiles that may be launched by North Koreain the coming weeks after Pyongyang fired a Rodong medium-range missile over the sea, a government source said on Saturday. According to the Reuters report citing an unidentified government source, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-shoot-down-north-korean-ballistic-missile-test-59256/

DefenceTalkRussia test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a test site in southern Russia on Tuesday evening, a Russian defense ministry spokesman said. Kapustin Yar is about 450 km (280 miles) east of the Ukrainian border. The launch coincided with reports of large deployments of apparently Russia-commanded troops in Crimea, which President Vladimir Putin denied […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-icbm-to-target-in-kazakhstan-58927/

DefenceTalkA missile unit of the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully launched a Prithvi missile today from the test range at Chandipur, off the Odisha Coast as part of a scenario based live launch training exercise. The launch was flawless and achieved all its targeting and technical parameters set out for the training exercise. ‘The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-test-fires-another-prithvi-irbm-50030/

DefenceTalkIsrael and the United States carried out a joint missile test Friday, the defence ministry said, as US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed for a Middle East peace deal. The Israel Missile Defence Organisation and US Missile Defence Agency completed a “successful” launch of the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile system over the Mediterranean, an Israeli […]https://www.defencetalk.com/israel-us-carry-out-missile-test-during-kerry-visit-50024/