US homeland missile defence system scores first ICBM target interceptThe US homeland missile defence system, known as Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), succeeded in...Daniel Wasserbly, Washington, DCJane's Defence Weekly
The Burevestnik, they say, could have a range of some 15,000 miles (23,000 km) - compared to more than 11,000 miles (17,700 km) for the Sarmat, Russia's newest ICBM - while its subsonic speed would make it detectable. "It’s going to be as vulnerable as any cru...
Ukraine's air force initially said the missile was an ICBM, sparking worries of a major escalation in the 2-1/2-year-old war. While launching an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) sends a less threatening signal, the incident could still set off alarms and Moscow notified W...
The U.S. is set to test an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM on Wednesday, less than a week after North Korea test-fired its own missile.
Today, America doesn’t need a government that wages wars more efficiently around the globe. We don’t need more efficient genocidal nuclear ICBMs. We don’t need more efficient weapons delivery to Israel so that Gaza can be leveled and its people murdered or displaced from their land. ...
With America distracted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the ICBM on the Korean Peninsula is not getting much attention. But the problem won’t go away without judicious action on both sides. North KoreaNorth Korea Nuclear TestKorean PeninsulaDenuclearization ...
Security Council meeting over its ICBM test. The North's weapons development was a self-defensive measure of defence against the U.S., Ri said. He accused Washington of raising regional tensions "to the brink of explosion" with military drills simulating a "pre-empti...
Dissenting view:Critics of the program, whichincludeseveral lawmakers, say the plan to spend a quarter-trillion dollars to develop, buy, and operate a new ICBM will make the nation less safe than pursuing alternatives. Read one such argument,here. ...
In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a US Navy ship at sea has hit and destroyed a mock ICBM in flight.
Other weapons on display were another ICBM that North Korea tested in 2017; ballistic missiles that can be fired from submarines or a train; solid-fueled, short-range missiles; and a developmental hypersonic missile that had its first test-flight last month, said Lee Choon Geun, a missile ...