DefenceTalkIndia on Friday successfully tested a ballistic missile fired from its first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, the defence ministry said, in a boost for its growing strike capabilities. The test of India’s “nuclear deterrence capability” makes it one of six countries — alongside the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China — with nuclear strike and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-successfully-tests-ballistic-missile-from-submarine-79523/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea accused the United States of “double standards” over weapons testing, state media reported Thursday after an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the issue. Pyongyang fired a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Tuesday, the latest in a series of tests in recent weeks, prompting the US and Britain to call […]

DefenceTalkNorth Korea successfully tested a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, state media reported Wednesday as the nuclear-armed country seeks to show off its ever-expanding military capabilities. Tuesday’s test, carried out near Sinpo, the site of a major naval dockyard, came as both Koreas build up their weapons technology in what could become an arms […]

DefenceTalkSouth Korea’s Navy received its first ballistic-missile-capable submarine on Friday to counter the threat of underwater missiles from the nuclear-armed North. Pyongyang has been developing submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) technology for years. It showed off four such devices at a military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un in January, with state media KCNA calling […]

DefenceTalkNorth Korea has released video footage of a purportedly new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test, three days after it claimed it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb. But South Korean media suggested the footage broadcast by state Korean Central TV late Friday was an edited compilation of the North’s third SLBM test, conducted last […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-video-of-new-submarine-launched-missile-test-66326/

DefenceTalkRussia has successfully test-fired a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the Borey-class Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The missile was launched from the submerged submarine at a location in the Barents Sea and hit a designated target at the Kura test range on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, the ministry said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-bulava-sea-based-ballistic-missile-60912/

DefenceTalkNew test launches of the troubled Bulava missile will start later this year following a recent unsuccessful launch that forced the Russian military to suspend sea trials of new Borey-class subs, a senior government official said. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered five additional launches of Bulava SLBM following a failed launch on September […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-resume-bulava-missile-tests-by-year-end-49057/

DefenceTalkRussia has put trials of two nuclear subs on hold following an unsuccessful launch of a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Friday, a Russian defense ministry spokesman said on Saturday. “The day before, a Bulava SLBM was fired toward the Kura test site in Kamchatka [in Far East] during state trials of the Alexander […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-puts-submarine-trials-on-hold-after-bulava-failure-48992/