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PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii (NNS) -- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Sailors of USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system June 26. The test resulted in the intercept of a separating ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by the Navy's newest missile defense interceptor missile, the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B. At 11:15 pm Hawaii Standard Time (5:15 am EDT June 27), the target missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, located on Kauai, Hawaii. The target flew on a northwesterly trajectory towards a...

Kevlar underwear can protect U.S. Marines against blast fragments flying like bullets through the air, but it lacks the comfort of simple cotton undies or silky unmentionables. Now the U.S. military has begun searching for better alternatives that prevent chafing as well as battle wounds. The U.S. Marine Corps sees comfortable undergarments as being equally important to ballistic protection, according to a new request for information aimed at U.S. manufacturers. That means any new underwear fabric must not only shield private parts against burns and tiny fragments traveling at 650 feet per second — the speed of some bullets —...

Any Chinese move to take over Taiwan would trigger a confrontation with the U.S. Navy and Air Force. Is the U.S. prepared to counter this growing threat? August 9, 2015 - 0400 Hours The war for Taiwan starts in the early morning. There are no naval bombardments or waves of bombers: That's how wars in the Pacific were fought 70 years ago. Instead, 1200 cruise and ballistic missiles rise from heavy vehicles on the Chinese mainland. Taiwan's modest missile defense network—a scattered deployment of I-Hawk and Patriot interceptors—slams into dozens of incoming warheads. It's a futile gesture. The mass raid...

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KRAKOW, Poland, Feb. 19, 2009 – A NATO ballistic missile defense system wouldn’t be needed if Iran didn’t pose a threat, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. “We continue to be very concerned about the Iranian missile threat, particularly as they continue to work on what we believe are weapons of mass destruction,” Gates told reporters following the beginning of the NATO defense ministers meeting here. NATO has agreed to a ballistic missile defense that would protect against a launch from Iran. The Czech Republic will host a radar for the system, with the missiles based in Poland....

Col. Sam Gardiner notes, in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Russia has deployed tactical nuclear weapons to South Ossetia. The SS-21 Missile launchers are relatively small compared to bombs that have already been used against Georgia by the Russian air force. However, this move does indicate Russia is potentially upping the game from a conventional weapons war to a tactical nuclear weapons war. Gardiner notes that at a news conference on Sunday, the US Deputy National Security advisor has noted these weapons arriving in South Ossetia. Business Wire confirms the subject matter of the news briefing...

(IsraelNN.com) Syria sees the next war with Israel as involving missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and front-line guerilla warfare, an anonymous senior official in the Syrian Ministry of Defense told Defense News Weekly, in an interview appearing Monday. Syria prefers to avoid a direct, "classic" confrontation with Israel, he said. Instead, the next war will involve Katyusha rocket and ballistic missiles that will target strategic points in Israel, especially civilian infrastructure. The official said that the war will not be limited to a single strike, but will be protracted in nature. "This will be a war of attrition, which the...

Notes on North Korean Missile and Nuclear Development By John E. Carey Peace and Freedom May 25, 2007The North Korean missile development program has been an evolutionary effort of engineering and testing. The first steps in North Korea’s development came from Russian developed missiles as old as 1950s era SCUD missiles.Most analysts now believe that North Korea has greatly benefited from cooperation with other nations such as Iran and Pakistan. Both nations already have developed mid-range ballistic missiles of good quality. Both nations have successfully tested these missiles.During 1997, analysts reported a surge in cargo aircraft flights between Pakistan and North...

Missile defense moves ahead By John E. Carey May 1, 2007 On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced from the Oval Office, "I've reached a decision which offers a new hope for our children in the 21st century." He explained his vision -- and his defense budget's inclusion -- of the first funds to go toward this nation's missile defense effort.     Liberals, and most of the media, derided the president's project as "star wars." Since 1983, America's Missile Defense effort has become a multinational, multi-system effort: and it has come down to earth and the sea.

Navy Simultaneously Destroys Ballistic Missile, Cruise Missile Targets By John E. Carey Peace and FreedomAt approximately 5:40 PM Eastern time yesterday, Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director, announced the successful completion of the latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense “hit to kill” intercept flight test.Conducted jointly with the U.S. Navy, the test involved the simultaneous engagements of a ballistic missile target and cruise missile target.Both targets were destroyed.The combat team of the ship had just seconds to find, identify, make an evaluation and engage these two targets.

Navy Missile Defense Test Tonight Most Complex Navy Missile Defense Test Ever By John E. Carey Peace and Freedom April 26, 2007 If all goes according to plan, the United States Navy will conduct the most complex Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) event ever at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at sea near Kauai on Thursday.USS Lake Erie is scheduled to detect, track, provide a firing solution and launch missiles at two targets simultaneously.  The targets are a Ballistic Missile and a cruise missile. This kind of event has never before been conducted.

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - India carried out a successful test on Thursday of its longest-range ballistic missile, the Agni III, which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead more than 3,000 km (1,900 miles), scientists said. Defence analysts say the Agni III is primarily designed to counter the military strength of China, which also has nuclear weapons, while shorter-range versions of the missile have been developed with long-time rival Pakistan in mind. The launch of the longest-range Agni, which means "fire" in the Sanskrit language, came after a failed test last July when the missile plunged into the Bay of...

<p>TMZ has learned Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture accussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie "Apocalypto."</p> <p>It happened last night at Cal State University at Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. Gibson was speaking to a film class about his movies, and several members of the Mayan community came to hear the famous director.</p>

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China has sent men into orbit and launched dozens of satellites, but its test of a satellite-killing weapon is shaking up perceptions about where the Chinese space program is headed. The test, confirmed by Beijing on Tuesday after nearly a two-week silence, has drawn criticism from the U.S. and Japan, and touched off fears of an arms race in space. The Chinese test "was an overtly military, very provocative event that cannot be spun any other way," said Rob Hewson, the London-based editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons. "So a bald assessment of that is that it's...

US, Japan Criticize China Over Space Test By Sam BeattieBeijing23 January 2007 Beattie report - Download 229k Listen to Beattie report China has publicly confirmed for the first time that it carried out an anti-satellite test on January 11. A spokesman says the test should not be viewed as a threat to any country, and does not mean China is engaging in an arms race in space. Sam Beattie reports from Beijing.China defended itself Tuesday against criticism over its anti-satellite test, in which a ground-based missile was sent to destroy an aging Chinese weather satellite. A government spokesman in Beijing...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - On the eve of President Bush's State of the Union address, most Americans are unhappy with the president's conduct of the Iraq war and a significant majority are concerned that the nation is headed in the wrong direction, according to two separate opinion polls. An AP-AOL poll released Monday finds that 66 percent of Americans believe the country is going the wrong way, while a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday shows flagging confidence in Bush's ability to manage the Iraq conflict. That survey found that when it came to handling the war, Americans trusted Democrats...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman warned on Sunday against fostering an arms race in space after China was reported to have conducted an anti-satellite weapons test. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said the test was provocative, but that the United States had ways to combat the threat posed by it. "I don't think we should be overly worried about this at this point," Biden said. "We have ways to deal with that ability." The U.S. said China conducted the test earlier this month in which an old Chinese weather satellite was destroyed by a missile. Biden, who...

China's satellite shoot-down concerns Taiwan Sat Jan 20, 2:55 AM ET Taiwan has expressed concern after rival China reportedly shot down a space satellite for the first time, saying the act would negatively affect peace between them and in the region. "We urge the international community to express their concerns over China's move, which would have negative impact on peace in the Taiwan Strait and in the region," said cabinet spokesman Cheng Wen-tsang. "The satellite shown-down showed that China has expanded its arms race to space and that its so-called 'peaceful rise' is merely an illusion," he said. The English-language...