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FILTER RESULTS ►Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Test
The Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie conducted a successful flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system yesterday, Pentagon officials reported. In the test, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense 4.0 weapon system and a Standard Missile 3 Block IB missile intercepted a separating ballistic missile target over the [...]
North Korea Fires Three Short-Range Missiles into Sea of Japan in 'Protest'
North Korea fired three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Sunday that fell into the ocean east of the Korean Peninsula, news agencies and the Wall Street Journal report. South Korean defense experts cited by the Journal indicated...Show More Summary
North Korea Launches Short-Range Missile Again – Report
North Korea launched on Sunday another short-range missile, a day after firing three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap news agency reported, referring to South Korea’ Defense Ministry.
Report: North Korea launches short-range missiles
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap reported. The missiles were fired in […]
S.Korea on Standby After North Launches 3 Missiles - Seoul
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the waters off its eastern coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing its country’s Defense Ministry.
Pyongyang launches three short-range missiles – South
South Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range guided missiles by North Korea, it said.Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news agency.The missiles...Show More Summary
North Korea launches short-range missiles
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.The ministry said it...Show More Summary
Lockheed and the MDA Conduct Test of New Air-Launched Missile Target Prototype
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully tested a prototype air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile (eMRBM) target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. In the test, a full-scale prototype of the eMRBM target was released from the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft at 25,000 feet. The system’s parachutes [...]
Missile Defense: Opportunity to Refocus on Strengthening Acquisition Management
The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has made some recent progress gaining important knowledge for its Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) by successfully conducting several important tests. In addition, the agency made substantial improvements to the clarity of its cost and schedule baselines since first reporting them in 2010, and declared the [...]
The Boeing Company (BA): Thirty Attack Helicopters Sent to South Korea
By now you’ve probably heard the news; The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency thinks “with moderate confidence” that North Korea has developed a nuclear weapon capable of being delivered on a ballistic missile. Good news, though: The DIA thinks such a weapon would have “low reliability.” If you’re like me, “low reliability” doesn’t exactly elicit feelings [...]
United Kingdom to Buy Hellfire Missiles
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress April 16 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the United Kingdom for 500 AGM-114-N4/P4 HELLFIRE missiles. The estimated cost is $95 million. This program will directly contribute to the U.S. foreign and national security policies by enhancing the close air support capability of the United Kingdom in [...]
Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe
The Missile Defense Agency has published a glossy brochure setting forth its vision of a missile defense system based in Europe. See “Proposed U.S. Missile Defense Assets in Europe” (pdf), Missile Defense Agency, June 15, 2007. Various perspectives on the missile defense program were presented in a recently updated report of the Congressional Research Service, [...]Show More Summary
The Travails of Sea-Based Missile Defense
The flight test of a sea-based missile defense system in the Pacific was aborted yesterday after an interceptor missile failed to launch from an Aegis cruiser, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said. It was the latest setback in an ambitious sea-based missile defense program that will cost more than one billion dollars in 2007. “In [...]Show More Summary
Defense Intelligence on the Lookout for MANPADS Components
The Defense Intelligence Agency has prepared an illustrated briefing (pdf) on the components of a MANPADS shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile briefing to assist security personnel in identifying such weapons and apprehending those who possess them without authorization. Show More Summary
Missile Defense Deployments “Secret for Political Purposes”
(Updated below) The names of foreign countries that are being considered for deployment of U.S. missile defense systems are unclassified but nevertheless should be kept secret, the Missile Defense Agency ordered (pdf) last year. “There...Show More Summary
In the News
The Department of Defense withdrew from its web site a DoD inspector general report that was critical of information security in the Missile Defense Agency’s ground-based missile defense system. Federal Computer Week reported on the removal of the document and posted the missing document on its own web site. See “DOD removes missile defense system [...]Show More Summary
Does North Korea have nuclear missiles or not?
The Defense Intelligence Agency says, in an assessment disclosed during a congressional hearing on Thursday, that it has concluded with "moderate confidence" that North Korea can build a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a ballistic missile. Show More Summary
Morning Brief: North Korea may have capacity to build nuclear missile
North Korea may have capacity to build nuclear missile
Top news: A report issued last month by the
Defense Intelligence Agency found,
with "moderate confidence," that "North
[Korea] currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles."
The assessment, disclosed Thursday by Rep. Show More Summary
Why the North Korean Crisis Demands a New Diplomatic Approach
Asia woke Friday to news that the Pentagon’s intelligence arm now thinks Pyongyang has the ability to produce a nuclear weapon that can fit on a missile. The Defense Intelligence Agency document, disclosed by a Republican congressmen...Show More Summary
Report: North Korea Has Launchable Nuclear Weapon
An assessment by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) claims that North Korea "may have developed a nuclear device small enough to mount on a ballistic missile." The DIA, a U.S. military intelligence agency, delivered its findings during an April 11 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. Show More Summary
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