Three decades after Ronald Reagan launched his "Star Wars" project, the costly missile defence programme has become a pillar of US strategy despite lingering doubts about its technology.No longer designed to counter a Soviet nuclear attack, the anti-missile network is supposed to thwart a "limited ...

India on Wednesday successfully test-fired its supersonic BrahMos cruise missile from a warship off the coast of the western state of Goa, sources said."The missile, with a range of 290 kms, was test-fired from the Indian Navy's Russian-built warship INS Tarkash and it successfully hit the target ...

Seoul : North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the weekend.The latest firing was confirmed by the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who said it was unclear if the ...

SEOUL : North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into theEastSea(Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry ...

SEOULNorth Korea has yet to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a missile, a senior US official said on Wednesday, contradicting a recent US military intelligence report.The North claimed its third atomic test staged in February involved a "miniaturised and lighter" warhead, prompting ...

WASHINGTON:Chinalaunched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to aUSscientist atHarvardUniversity. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at theHarvard-SmithsonianCenterfor Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched ...

Pakistan said on Thursday that it considers India's on-going efforts to build ballistic missile system as a destabilizing development.Responding to a question at the weekly news briefing here‚ Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said Pakistan has constantly drawn attention of the ...

BREST,France: A French test of an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile failed on Sunday as it self-destructed off the coast ofBrittany, officials said. "It was a failure, the reasons will be determined by an investigation," said Lieutenant Commander Lionel Delort, a spokesman for ...

BEIRUT A ground-to-ground missile was fired on a town in northern Syria at dawn on Sunday and killed at least four civilians, two of them children, a watchdog reported.Anti-regime activists of the Aleppo Media Centre said the missile, which slammed into a residential area of Tal Rifaat, was a Scud, ...

SEOUL :  North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast, where preparations are apparently under way for a missile test as tensions simmer on the peninsula, a report said Sunday. Expectations had been high that Pyongyang would carry out a test to coincide with ...

DUBAI Reuters Iran test-fired a new land-to-sea ballistic missile in the Gulf, a senior official said on Tuesday, days before an annual ceremony meant to showcase its military muscle at a time of rising tension with the West over its nuclear activity. Israel has publicly warned of possible air ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed a message of dialogue with North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had ...

Pakistan on Wednesday conducted a successful launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Hatf IV Shaheen-1 Weapon System. The missile incorporates series of improvements in range and technical parameters of the existing missile. It is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to ...

SEOUL (AFP) - The US has delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid stoking tensions with North Korea, as fears escalated that weeks of angry rhetoric could erupt into conflict on the Korean peninsula.The Pentagon's disclosure that it would reschedule the test due in California ...

New Delhi  - India on Sunday test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-II strategic ballistic missile from a military base in Odisha. The test was conducted from Wheeler’s Island in Bhadrak district. The medium-range surface-to-surface missile with a range of over 2,000 km has already been ...

India on Sunday test-fired its nuclear capable Agni-II strategic ballistic missile from a military base in Odisha, Indian media quoting defence officials said. The test was conducted from Wheeler's Island in Bhadrak district, around 200 km from here, by army personnel as part of a training ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea said Thursday as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.Seoul's defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin said the missile could reach a "considerable ...

Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone attack has killed 12 militants close to the Afghan border. The missile attack took place in South Waziristan region on Friday. The officials did not give their names because they are not authorized to disclose them to reporters.

Pakistan successfully test fired a nuclear-capable, short-range, surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Monday, the military said.The Hatf-2 ballistic missile can travel up to 180 km, an army statement said.“Hatf-2 carries nuclear as well as conventional warheads with high accuracy,” ...

Washington’s talks with Moscow on European missile defense failed because U.S. negotiators were unwilling to put their oral proposals to Moscow on paper, Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has said.“They made some proposals to us which we virtually agreed ...

India began final preparations for the first test of its most-ambitious strategic missile, the 5,000-km Agni-V, which will prove to be both a technical as well as logistical challenge, Indian media reported on Sunday.The Agni-V, which will bring the whole of Asia, 70% of Europe and other regions ...

A US drone strike targeting a residential compound killed five people in North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, officials said. According to political agent, two missiles were fired by a US spy aircraft on a house in Spalga town near Miranshah. The house was also destroyed in the strike. It is ...

India will next month test a new long-range nuclear-capable missile which can strike targets more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) away, a defence research spokesman said on Wednesday. The announcement came three months after India successfully tested its Agni-IV missile, which was previously ...

BHUBANESWAR - India successfully tested on Friday an interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, a government official said.Officials from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said an indigenously developed interceptor missile locked ...

India on Friday tested a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Odisha to create a shield against incoming enemy missiles, a senior defence official said.The indigenous Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile was fired from Wheeler Island off the state coast near Dhamra in ...

TEHRAN - Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television's website said on Saturday. The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, "is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision." It can be ...

BRUSSELS  - Nato will locate the command centre for its US-led missile shield at the alliance air base in Ramstein, Germany, a diplomat told AFP on Thursday.“The command for the Nato missile shield will be based at the Nato base in Ramstein,” the diplomat said on condition of ...

WASHINGTON - Weeks after offering to sell its F-35 fifth generation fighter jets, the US Wednesday said it was open to work with India on joint development of a ballistic missile shield. The offer was made by deputy assistant secretary of defence, Robert Scher, who said the Indo-US defence ties ...

TEHRAN  - Iran said on Sunday that its scientists have “tested the first nuclear fuel rod produced from uranium ore deposits inside the country,” the website of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said.“After going through physical checks, it was inserted into the core of ...

  TEHRAN  - Iran delayed promised long-range missile tests in the Gulf on Saturday and Tehran signalled it was ready for fresh talks on its disputed nuclear programme.Iran’s state media initially reported early on Saturday that long-range missiles had been launched during naval ...