January 30, 2024
- AP News: North Korea said Wednesday it conducted a test-firing of long-range cruise missiles with an aim to sharpen its counterattack and strategic strike capabilities, in its latest display of weapons threatening South Korea and Japan.
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August 21, 2023
- New York Post: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a test of strategic cruise missiles, state media KCNA said on Monday, as South Korea and the United States kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for war.
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June 15, 2023
- CBS News: North Korea test fired two short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a string of banned weapons tests carried out by Pyongyang so far this year. The missile launches drew a united rebuke from the U.S., South Korea and Japan, which jointly condemned them and said they showed the threat that North Korea’s “unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs pose to the region.”
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May 25, 2023
- Reuters: Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000-km range on Thursday, state media said, two days after the chief of Israel’s armed forces raised the prospect of “action” against Tehran over its nuclear programme.
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May 8, 2023
- Firstpost: Iran’s very own locally manufactured Fajr-5 missile, which has a thermobaric warhead, was successfully tested by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Ground Force on Sunday, according to the Iranian Tasnim news agency. The Fajr-5 missile, a 333 mm rocket with a guided version known as the “Fajr-5C,” has already been handed to the IRGC Ground Force units, according to the agency. It was designed by experts at the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the IRGC Ground Force.
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April 24, 2023
- The French Ministry of Armed Forces announced that the French Navy (Marine Nationale) Le Triomphant-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) “Le Terrible” successfully test launched an M51 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in operational conditions on April 19.
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April 24, 2023
- India flight-tested a sea-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) system on Friday. The endo-atmospheric interceptor’s maiden trial from a vessel elevated “the country into the elite club of nations having naval BMD capability,” the Ministry of Defence stated.
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April 16, 2023
- General Ali Kouhestani, the head of the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the IRGC Ground Force, announced on Saturday during an interview with Tasnim news agency that there is a development of a powerful anti-tank guided missile called the Sadid-365.
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April 13, 2023
- One of the leaked DoD classified documents revealed a Chinese DF-27 hypersonic IRBM test on February 25, 2023.
- “The DF-27 is designed to enhance [China’s] ability to hold targets at risk beyond the Second Island Chain and possesses a high probability of penetrating U.S.” ballistic missile defense, the daily intelligence update stated. It also revealed that last year the PLA deployed versions of the new missile that can attack land targets and ships.
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April 13, 2023
- North Korea says it has successfully tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can be launched far more quickly than the ones in its current arsenal. Experts say the missile, which uses solid fuel as opposed to liquid, is a major milestone for the nation’s military and will greatly strengthen its already formidable nuclear arsenal.
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April 12, 2023
- Russia overnight unleashed a ‘new intercontinental ballistic missile’ test launch, ‘successfully’ striking a target at a firing range in Kazakhstan. Full details of the mysterious ‘advanced’ rocket were not initially released but experts believe it to be a powerful Topol-ME system.
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March 27, 2023
- North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, just as a U.S. aircraft carrier staged combined naval exercises with South Korea in a warning to Pyongyang. The missiles flew about 370 km (230 miles) after being launched from North Hwanghae province at 7:47 a.m. (2247 GMT on Sunday), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
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March 19, 2023
- Army Times: North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, ramping up testing activities in response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. The missile launched from the North’s northwestern Tongchangri area flew across the country before it landed in the waters off its east coast, according to South Korean and Japanese assessments. They said the missile traveled a distance of about 800 kilometers (500 miles), a range that suggests the weapon could target South Korea.
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March 16, 2023
- NBC: The missile, launched Thursday from North Korea’s main airport as leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter smiled from afar, overshadowed a summit held hours later between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minster Fumio Kishida. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim supervised the test-firing of the Hwasong-17 missile, which blasted off from a launch vehicle parked on an airport runway. Kim stressed the need to “strike fear into the enemies” over what it called the “open hostility” shown to the North by the U.S.-South Korea exercises.
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March 15, 2023
- UPI: North Korea confirmed the launch of two medium-range ballistic missiles warning that its military would “surely annihilate the enemy if they fight it,”state media reported Wednesday. The missiles were fired Tuesday and were reported by the militaries of South Korea, the United States and Japan. The test was conducted by a missile unit of the Korean People’s Army in the Jangyon area of South Hwanghae province, located in the country’s southwest, state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.
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March 14, 2023
- WSJ: North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles, following its playbook of using weapons tests to keep pressure on the U.S. and South Korea as the two countries conduct joint military drills. The missiles were fired around 7:40 a.m. on Tuesday from North Korea’s western coastal province of South Hwanghae and traveled about 385 miles in 10 minutes before landing in waters near the east coast, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said.
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March 12, 2023
- ABC: North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military said they detected “one unidentified missile fired from North Korea’s submarine vessel near North’s port city of Sinpo.” The missile test took place about 24 hours before the U.S. and South Korea’s joint forces started their annual 11-day military exercises, planned to be the biggest war games in five years.
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March 9, 2023
- CNN: North Korea fired off at least six short-range missiles on Thursday afternoon in what could be the opening salvo in weeks of military displays on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, analysts said. Photos released by state-run media on Friday showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the Hwasong artillery unit’s fire drill on the western front, along with his daughter and military officials.
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March 5, 2023
- The News Minute: The Indian Navy, on Sunday, March 5, successfully test-fired the BrahMos missile launched from a warship in the Arabian Sea, an official said, adding that the missile managed to hit its target with precision. The BrahMos was fired from a Kolkata class-guided missile destroyer warship on Sunday evening. The Defence Ministry said that the missile is equipped with an indigenous booster designed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
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March 3, 2023
- Al Arabiya: A Russian submarine in the Sea of Japan has hit a land target over 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away with a Kalibr cruise missile in a drill, Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday, the same type of missile Moscow uses in the Ukraine conflict. The ministry published a video showing the missile emerging from under the water and then hitting a target at a training area in Russia’s eastern Khabarovsk region.
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February 24, 2023
- India Today: North Korea on Friday said that it test-fired four long-range strategic cruise missiles during a drill designed to showcase a nuclear counterattack against hostile forces, reported Reuters. According to North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the exercise that was conducted on Thursday involved an operational strategic cruise missile unit of the Korean People’s Army. The unit fired the four “Hwasal-2” missiles in the area of Kim Chaek City, North Hamgyong Province, towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.
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February 18, 2023
- VOA: North Korea has confirmed that the intercontinental ballistic missile it fired Saturday was the Hwasong-15, which it said was part of a “surprise” exercise to test its war readiness with a “mobile and mighty counterattack.” Authorities in South Korea had said the long-range missile was detected leaving North Korea’s Sunan area near the capital, Pyongyang, around 5:20 p.m. local time. KCNA also posted similar launch specifications as reported by Japan and South Korea, reporting the Hwasong-15 traveled at a top altitude of 5,768.5 kilometers for nearly 67 minutes, covering a distance of 989 kilometers before reaching its target in the “open waters of the East Sea of Korea” to receive an “excellent mark.” The ICBM had the capacity to reach the continental United States given a normalized range of 14,000 kilometers, Japan said.
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January 1, 2023
- UK Gov: North Korea test launched 1 short-range ballistic missile.
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December 31, 2022
- ABC: North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display on Saturday, a day after rival South Korea conducted a rocket launch related to its push to build a space-based surveillance to better monitor the North. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected the three launches from an inland area south of Pyongyang, the North’s capital, on Saturday morning. It said the three missiles traveled about 350 kilometers (220 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The estimated range suggests the missiles tested could target South Korea.
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December 23, 2022
- UPI: North Korea launched a pair of short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Friday afternoon, South Korean defense officials said, the latest in a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang as tensions on the peninsula remain elevated. The South Korean military detected two missiles fired from Sunan international airfield in Pyongyang at around 4:30 p.m., Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to reporters. No further details were immediately given.
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December 18, 2022
- Reuters: North Korea fired two ballistic missiles towards the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast on Sunday, said South Korea and Japan, prompting South Korea’s presidential office to “strongly condemned” Pyongyang for escalating tensions. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the two medium-range missiles flew about 500 kms (311 miles). Japan’s Vice Defence Minister Toshiro Ino said the missiles seemed to have landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and there had been no report of damages.
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November 18, 2022
- ABC: North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. mainland. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the ICBM launch from North Korea’s capital region around 10:15 a.m. Japan said it appeared to fly on a high trajectory and land west of its island of Hokkaido.
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November 17, 2022
- AP: North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the U.S. bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. The missile fired from the North’s eastern coastal Wonsan area at 10:48 a.m. landed in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to its neighbors. After detecting the launch, South Korean, U.S. and Japanese militaries quickly condemned the launch that they say threatens stability in the region.
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November 11, 2022
- DailyMail: Iran claims to have developed a hypersonic missile that is unstoppable by all current anti-air defences. General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the IRGC’s aerospace unit, said Thursday that Tehran now possesses a ballistic missile that moves at ‘high speed and can manoeuvre in and out of the atmosphere’ – making it harder to shoot down. General Hajizadeh said the missile is designed to target enemy anti-air systems and is a ‘generational leap’ forward in terms of Tehran’s military technology.
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- ArmyRecognition: At AirShow China 2022, the Chinese company CASIC displays a new version of its LW-30 is a modern short-range precision 30kW laser weapon system designed for tracking and destroying UAVs based on a Chinese-made 6×6 truck chassis similar to the Belarus MZKT-6922. The LW-30 laser weapon system is designed to provide an air defense system with hard killing capability against typical aerial targets such as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), as well as soft and hard killing capability against photoelectric detection and guidance equipment.
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November 10, 2022
- C4ISRNET: China has unveiled air-launched versions of its ship-based hypersonic missile and a standoff cruise missile at the Zhuhai Airshow, going on this week in the southern Guangdong province near Taiwan. A pair of air-launched hypersonic missiles carried under the wings of a Xi’an H-6K bomber were at the show, which opened Tuesday and runs through Nov. 13.
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November 7, 2022
- Reuters: North Korea said on Monday that its recent missile launches were simulated strikes on South Korea and the United States as the two countries held a “dangerous war drill”, while the South said it had recovered parts of a North Korean missile near its coast. Last week, North Korea test-fired multiple missiles, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and hundreds of artillery shells into the sea, as South Korea and the United States carried out six-day air drills that ended on Saturday.
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November 6, 2022
- Reuters: Russia fired two S-300 missiles on Zaporizhzhia city after midnight on Sunday (November 6), killing at least one person and destroying a commercial warehouse, the regional governor said.
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November 5, 2022
- Fox News: North Korea on Saturday fired four more short-range ballistic missiles at the western Yellow Sea, the South Korean military said, according to reports. The missile launch comes as the U.S. and South Korea finished six days of military drills, dubbed “Vigilant Storm,” involving hundreds of servicemen, which Pyongyang argued was practice for a full-scale invasion.
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- Reuters: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tested a new satellite-carrying rocket on Saturday, state media reported, a move the United States called “unhelpful and destabilising”. Washington fears the same long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch nuclear warheads. Tehran has regularly denied having any such intention. “The flight test of this satellite carrier with a solid-fuelled engine … was successfully completed,” state news agency IRNA reported.
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November 3, 2022
- CBS News: North Korea unsuccessfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during a new salvo of launches Thursday, the South Korean military said, with Washington urging all nations to enforce sanctions on Pyongyang. The launches prompted South Korea and the United States to extend their ongoing joint air drills, the largest-ever such exercises, citing North Korea’s “provocations.” People in parts of northern Japan were ordered to seek shelter during the North’s latest launches, which also included two short-range missiles and followed a blitz of projectiles fired Wednesday.
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November 2, 2022
- Military News: South Korea’s military said North Korea launched at least 23 missiles — 17 in the morning and six in the afternoon — off its its eastern and western coasts on Wednesday. It said the weapons were all short-range ballistic missiles or suspected surface-to-air missiles. Also Wednesday, North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells into an eastern maritime buffer zone the Koreas created in 2018 to reduce tensions, according to South Korea’s military.
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- Yonhap News: In response to the North’s provocations, South Korea’s F-15K and KF-16 warplanes fired three precision strike air-to-surface SLAM-ER missiles into high seas north of the NLL from 11:10 a.m.
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October 28, 2022
- IBT News: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) off its east coast on Friday, South Korea’s military said, while wrapping up nearly two weeks of major drills aimed at deterring its neighbour. The SRBMs were fired from the Tongcheon area of the North’s Gangwon province, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, four days after the neighbours exchanged warning shots off the west coast amid rising tension.
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October 22, 2022
- CBS News: Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles overnight — “a massive missile attack” that targeted “critical infrastructure,” Ukraine’s air force said in a statement Saturday. Ukrainian officials confirmed at least half a dozen regions were targeted, including the capital city, Kyiv. The air force said it downed 18 out of 33 cruise missiles launched from air and sea.
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October 19, 2022
- PBSNews: North Korea fired about 100 more artillery shells toward the sea Wednesday in response to South Korean live-firing drills at border areas as the rivals accuse each other of dialing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula with weapons tests. The drills conducted by both sides come amid heightened animosities over recent North Korean missile tests that it calls simulated nuclear attacks on South Korean and U.S. targets.
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- Pravda: The Air Force reported that at 12:05 on 19 October, the Russians attacked Ukraine from the northeast using strategic aircraft. Six X-101/X-555 cruise missiles were launched from Tu-95 and Tu-160 missile carriers. One missile was destroyed by fighter aircraft and another by an anti-aircraft missile unit within the operational area of Air Command Tsentr (Centre) in Kyiv and Vinnytsia oblasts.
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October 14, 2022
- CNN: New tensions are flaring between the Koreas, with the North flying warplanes near their shared border and launching the latest in a series of missiles and the South holding a live-fire artillery drill.
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October 12, 2022
- Al Jazeera: North Korea has test-fired a pair of long-range strategic cruise missiles, with leader Kim Jong Un lauding another successful display of the country’s tactical nuclear strike capability. The cruise missiles travelled 2,000km (1,240 miles) over the sea, according to KCNA, which said the projectiles hit their intended, but unspecified, targets.
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October 6, 2022
- Reuters: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in the direction of Japan, just an hour after condemning the repositioning of a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region, and a U.N. Security Council meeting held in New York.
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October 4, 2022
- BBC News: North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, in what appears to be a deliberate escalation to get the attention of Tokyo and Washington. The missile travelled 4,500km (2,800 miles) before falling into the Pacific Ocean – far enough to hit the US island of Guam if it took another trajectory. It had covered the longest distance ever travelled by a North Korean missile, and reached a height of around 1,000km – higher than the International Space Station.
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October 1, 2022
- Airforce Times: North Korea on Saturday test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles, its neighbors said, the fourth round this week of weapons launches that prompted quick, strong condemnation from its rivals. In an unusually strong rebuke of North Korea’s weapons programs, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said North Korea’s “obsession” with nuclear weapons is deepening the suffering of its own people, and warned of an “overwhelming response” from South Korean and U.S. militaries should such weapons be used.
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September 29th, 2022
- CBS News: North Korea test fired two more ballistic missiles Thursday just hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris toured the South’s heavily fortified border with its nuclear-armed neighbor — part of a trip aimed at strengthening the security alliance with Seoul and reassuring the ally of America’s commitment to regional security.
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September 28th, 2022
- APNews: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, its neighbors said, a day before U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is to visit South Korea. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North Korean missiles lifted off 10 minutes apart on Wednesday afternoon from its capital region and flew toward the waters off its east coast. Japanese Vice Defense Minister Toshiro Ino said Japan’s military also detected the launches and that the weapons flew in an irregular trajectory.
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- NBCNews: As protests rage at home, Iran launches drone and missile attack in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian drone in northern Iraq because it posed a threat to U.S. forces in the area. The Iranian attack left at least nine people dead and 32 wounded, Kurdish authorities in the area said.
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September 25th, 2022
- Reuters: North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, ahead of planned military drills by South Korean and U.S. forces involving an aircraft carrier and a visit to the region by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
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September 22nd, 2022
- TheDefensePost: Iran test-fired a domestically-produced Fath 360 surface-to-surface missile during a military drill this month, Fars News reported. The missile initially flies at Mach 3 (3,704 kilometers/2,304 miles per hour), increasing its speed to Mach 4 as it connects to satellites for rapid homing, Tasnim News Agency wrote, citing Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Nozar Ne’mati.
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September 21st, 2022
- Reuters: North Korea may be preparing to launch a new submarine believed to be capable of firing ballistic missiles, a U.S.-based think tank reported on Thursday, citing commercial satellite imagery. Images of the Sinpo South Shipyard, on the east coast of the country, from Sept. 18 revealed six barges and vessels gathered around the construction hall quay, said 38 North, which monitors North Korea.
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September 20th, 2022
- TheEurAsianTimes: HIMARS Hysteria! Iran claims testing indigenous Fath 360 missiles that is ‘very similar’ to US Army’s MLRS. Experts now believe that Iran conducted a military exercise in which it tested its domestically made Fath 360 satellite-guided missile, similar to HIMARS. Iran recently carried out a major ground troops exercise known as Eghtedar 1401. The exercise demonstrated Iran’s extensive weaponry while holding massive military operations in the desert.
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September 16th, 2022
- Reuters: Russian nuclear-powered submarines fired cruise missiles in the Arctic on Friday as part of military drills designed to test Moscow’s readiness for a possible conflict in its icy northern waters, the defence ministry said.
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September 14th, 2022
- AsiaTimes: China is developing an anti-ship missile that turns into a torpedo during its terminal phase, combining flight and underwater capabilities in one weapon to increase the probability of a successful strike. Lead scientist Li Pengfei and his team from the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha claimed that no existing shipboard defense system can protect against this “cross-medium” attack, with the missile capable of changing course at will or crash-diving up to 100 meters to evade shipboard defenses.
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September 12th, 2022
- TheTimesofIsrael: Iran unveils new drone that general says is designed to strike Tel Aviv and Haifa. A commander of Iranian military’s ground forces claims Arash-2 suicide UAV specifically developed, with ‘unique capabilities,’ for attacking Israeli coastal cities.
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September 10th, 2022
- TheJerusalemPost: Iran claim’s to test new Fateh “360” missile during large drill. According to reports, the drills took place in Isfahan province. The Persian country claims to have tested a missile called the Fateh 360, which carries a 175 kg. payload and allegedly has a range of 3,000 km., which would supposedly allow it to reach Israel.
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August 31st, 2022
- DefenseNews: Taiwan’s military fired warning shots at drones from China flying over its outposts just off the Chinese coastline, underscoring heightened tensions and the self-ruled island’s resolve to respond to new provocations.
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August 29th, 2022
- DefenseNews: As Belarus’s involvement in the Russian war against Ukraine continues to push Minsk towards an even closer military cooperation with Moscow, Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko has announced that Russia upgraded his country’s jets to enable them to carry tactical atomic weapons.
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August 18th, 2022
- CNN: The Russian military deployed three fighter jets armed with hypersonic missiles to Kaliningrad. “Three MiG-31 aircraft with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles have been deployed to the Kaliningrad Region as part of additional strategic deterrence measures,” the Minister of Defense stated.
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- Eurasian Times: As the U.S. and India prepare their bi-lateral military drills, “Yudh Abhyas,” the Chinese military tested its HQ-17A air defense system. The HQ-17A short-range air defense (SHORAD) missile is intended to be a highly mobile air defense missile at the terminal stage and close range so that it can be deployed rapidly in forward areas to protect troops or vital installations from airborne threats such as helicopters, low-flying close air support aircraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
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August 17th, 2022
- The New York Times: The Ukrainian government warned the West that Russia appears to be building up its long-range missile systems in Belarus. Throughout the war, Russia has used Belarus as a staging ground.
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- CNN: The South Korean Defense Ministry reported that North Korea fired 2 cruise missiles from the coastal town of Onchon into waters off its west coast. This test marks North Korea’s 18th launch this year.
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August 8th, 2022
- ABC News: China announced that it is extending its military drills around Taiwan. The exercises will include anti-submarine drills, which focus on targeting the U.S.’ support for Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.
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August 4th, 2022
- Reuters: China announced the beginning of military drills that showcased precision military strikes from August 4th to August 7th. The drills have involved at least 22 PLA aircraft entering Taiwan’s air domain, 11 ballistic missiles flying across the island nation, and countless warships. The missiles have landed in both Taiwanese and Japanese waters.
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July 30th, 2022
- Global Times: As Nancy Pelosi prepared to travel to Taiwan, the Chinese government released footage of a test launch of its DF-17. Commonly referred to as an “aircraft carrier killer,” the DF-17 is a hypersonic missile. The U.S. has no missile defense technology that can successfully intercept a hypersonic missile like the DF-17. By releasing the footage, China hoped to intimidate Nancy Pelosi into canceling her visit; Pelosi visited Taiwan nonetheless.
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July 11th, 2022
- CNN: The White House used recently declassified documents to announce that Iran intends to deliver and train the Russian military with hundreds of “weapon capable” drones in its war against Ukraine. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, “Information indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred (unmanned aerial vehicles), including weapons-capable UAVs on an expedited timeline…Our information further indicates that Iran is preparing to train Russian forces to use these UAVs, with initial training session slated in as soon as early July. It’s unclear whether Iran has delivered any of these UAVs to Russia already”
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July 7th, 2022
- The U.S. Navy: The United States announced that in January and February of 2022, the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and the U.S. Navy seized vessels carrying Iranian-made cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles on a route toward Yemen. While the seizure of advanced weaponry is a great success, it also reveals the ability of Iran to proliferate sophisticated conventional weapons across the Middle East.
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June 26th, 2022
- Al Jazeera: Iran successfully tested its Zuljanah satellite launcher. The U.S., however, fears that long-range ballistic technology used to put the satellite into orbit could be used for nuclear-capable long-range missiles.
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June 20th, 2022
- Reuters: The Chinese military claimed that it successfully tested its new missile defense systems. China used a land-based mid-course missile to intercept an incoming missile in space; however, no further information on the test itself is available. China did also announce that this is the sixth successful missile defense test, with others occurring in 2010, 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2021.
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June 5th, 2022
- NPR News: North Korea test-fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles from multiple locations toward the sea on Sunday, according to South Korea’s military. Possibly setting a single-day record for North Korean ballistic launches, eight missiles were fired in succession over 35 minutes from at least four different locations, including from western and eastern coastal areas and two inland areas north of and near the capital, Pyongyang, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. It said the missiles flew 110 to 670 kilometers (68 to 416 miles) at maximum altitudes of 25 to 80 kilometers (15 to 56 miles) while reaching speeds of Mach 3 to 6.
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May 28th, 2022
- Reuters: Russia tested its Zircon hypersonic missile in a launch from an Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the Barents sea. The missile traveled approximately 540 miles and struck its target in the White Sea. Russian officials have claimed the sea-based Zircon can evade all existing anti-missile systems, although such a claim is impossible to confirm.
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May 24th, 2022
- NBC News: North Korea fired its Hwasong-17 ICBM, North Korea’s largest known ICBM, alongside two short range ballistic missiles. Hours after President Biden concluded his trip to Asia, the ICBM traveled 223 miles at an altitude of 335 miles, the second launch was unsuccessful, and the third missile flew 472 miles at a height of 37 miles.
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May 12th, 2022
- The Associated Press: North Korea fired 3 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea. The test came hours after North Korea admitted to its first case of the coronavirus.
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May 7th, 2022
- The New York Times: North Korea launched a short-range, submarine-launched ballistic missile from its East Coast and flew 372 miles.
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April 20th, 2022
- Defense News: Russia conducted its first flight test of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on April 20, 2022. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced the Sarmat “was successfully test-launched from a silo at the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome” in northwestern Russia. The Sarmat is a three-stage, silo-based, liquid-fuel, heavy ICBM with a reported range of 18,000 kilometers. Moscow says the new missile can also carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.
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April 16th, 2022
- The New York Times: North Korea tested 2 more short-range ballistic missiles, rendering it the 12th test of the year. The missiles were shot from Hamhung and flew 68 miles.
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March 24th, 2022
- CNN: North Korea has fired what is believed to be its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in more than four years as Western leaders gather in Brussels for a security summit. The suspected ICBM flew to an altitude of 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles) and to a distance of 1,080 kilometers (671 miles) with a flight time of 71 minutes before splashing down in waters off Japan’s western coast on Thursday, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry. South Korean and US analysis of the March 24 launch of what North Korea claimed was a new Hwasong-17 ICBM, was in actual fact the older and slightly smaller Hwasong-15 — an ICBM last tested by Pyongyang in 2017.
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March 16th, 2022
- The Washington Post: North Korea continues to develop its Hwasong-17 ICBM. In its most recent launch, however, the missile failed.
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March 4th, 2022
- The New York Times: North Korea launched conducted another developmental test by launching an ICBM.
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February 27th, 2022
- Reuters: As Russia begins its invasion of Ukraine, North Korea is looking to improve its missile capabilities by developing an intercontentnal ballistic missile. North Korea conducted a developmental test with an ICBM.
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February 24th, 2022
- The Drive: A Russian military operation in Ukraine that began at 5:00 AM local time this morning involved an initial wave of standoff missile attacks launched from land, sea, and air. The Drive has identified the use of the following land-attack cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, as well as other air-launched standoff missiles:
- 3M14 Kalibr
- 9K720 Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles
- 9M723 Iskander-M ballsitic missiles
- 9M728 Iskander-K cruise missile
- Tochka/SS-21 Scarab mobile short-range ballistic missile
- Kh-31P supersonic anti-radiation missile
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February 20th, 2022
- CNN: Russia conducted nuclear and conventional weapons drills with Belarus over the 19th and 20th of February. According to Putin’s press office, ballistic and cruise missile exercises included:
- Kinzhal hypersonic missiles
- Kalibr cruise missiles and Zircon hypersonic missiles launched from ships and submarines
- Iskander land-based cruise missiles
- Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles
- Air-launhced cruise missiles from Tu-95m strategic bombers
- Sineva ballistic missiles launched from submarine Karelia
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January 30th, 2022
- Japan Times: North Korea tested a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile.
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January 25th, 2022
- Japan Times: North Korea tested a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile.
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January 17th, 2022
- Voices of America: North Korea claims that it tested 2 KN-24 short-range ballistic missiles to verify their accuracy.
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January 13th, 2022
- The New York Times: After the U.S. helped impose more sanctions on North Korea due to its recent missile launches, the North Korean military became more provocative. It launched 2 KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles.
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January 11th, 2022
- Voices of America: North Korea launched another MaRV ballistic missile just one week after the last launch.
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January 4th, 2022
- NBC News: North Korea launched a maneuverable reentry vehicle (MaRV) ballistic missile into the sea.
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December 24th, 2021
- ABC News: The IRGC fired 16 surface-to-air missiles during a military exercise in the Southern portion of the country. Iran fired Emad, Ghadr, Sejjil, Zalzal, Dezful, and Zolfaghar missiles — which are capable of reaching maximum distances between 220 and 1250 miles. After the drill, Iran publicly stated that their short- and medium-range missiles could strike U.S. bases in the region.
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October 19th, 2021
- The Washington Post: North Korea claimed that it tested a “new type” of submarine-launched ballistic weapon.
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September 29th, 2021
- Yonhap: North Korea claimed to have tested its newly developed hypersonic missile.
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September 16th, 2021
- Reuters: North Korea announced that it tested 2 KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles from its new railway-borne missile system.
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September 13th, 2021
- Yonhap: The North Korean state media reported that North Korea tested 2 new long-range cruise missiles. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the missiles “traveled for 7,580 seconds along an oval and pattern-8 flight orbits in the air above the territorial land and waters” in North Korea and “hit targets 1,500 km away.”
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August 13th, 2021
- CNN: The Chinese military tested its second nuclear-capable hypersonic missile. Former outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Hyten said that the missiles “went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China.” Launched from a rocket in low-Earth orbit, the hypersonic missiles could have evaded the U.S.’ missile defense systems.
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July 27th, 2021
- The Financial Times: The Chinese military used a “fractional orbital bombardment” to launch a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile for the very first time. Upon learning about this information, many at the Pentagon were purportedly “stunned” by China’s missile advancement.
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March 25th, 2021
- The Associated Press: North Korea fired two new short-range ballistic missiles. South Korean officials believe it is an upgraded version of the Russian-made Iskander—a short-range nuclear-capable missile designed to fly at a low altitude and make in-flight guidance adjustments.
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March 21st, 2021
- The Diplomat: North Korea fired 2 unknown short-range cruise missiles to antagonize the newly sworn-in President Biden.
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January 16th, 2021
- Al Jazeera: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tested long-range missiles against land and sea targets. First, the IRGC successfully fired dozens of “next-generation missiles” from desert terrain. And after that, it launched long-range ballistic missiles that traveled 1,118 miles before striking targets in the Indian Ocean.
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