Category: Space

In its annual report, the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) says its assessment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system remain unchanged and has “a limited capability to defend the U.S. Homeland from small numbers of simple intermediate-range or intercontinental ballistic missile threats launched from North Korea or Iran.”

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The Russian Defense Ministry says the Strategic Missile Troops – the branch that controls Russia’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles – is on course to using a digital communication network by 2020.

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Israeli firm, ImageSat International (iSi), has published photos of two Iskander transloaders out in the open at Hmeymin airbase in Syria.

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A recent Voice of America article suggested that North Korea has built itself a missile silo at Pumyong-dong. The folks at 38 North did their own analysis and concluded that there is no missile silo there.

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