Russia’s Voronezh-M long-range missile warning radar was put on duty officially at 10:15 a.m. local time in the Irkutsk region of Siberia on Wednesday.
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New North Korean launch facility has possible Iranian connections
US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University reports that North Korea is constructing a new rocket launch pad with supporting facilities.
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NATO declares interim capability for European missile shield
NATO leaders activated the first phase of its European missile shield by transferring the command of an early-warning radar in Turkey and a U.S. warship armed with interceptors under NATO command in a German base.
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Russian convicted of selling Bulava’s secrets
A worker with a Russian defense firm has been sentenced to eight years in prison for passing secrets of the Bulava intercontinental missile to a foreign intelligence service.
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Russian spy satellite lifted into orbit
The last Soyuz-U flight from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia was completed on May 17. It placed a Kobalt M reconnaissance satellite into a polar orbit.
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