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Pakistan has carried out the first test of its Ababeel ballistic missile on Jan. 24. The military claimed that the Ababeel is multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capable weapon, therefore able to carrying several nuclear warheads.
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India is making preparations to test fire its K-4 submarine-launch ballistic missile (K-4) on Jan. 31.
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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 current OTV-4 mission of the X-37B space plane has cross the 600 days mark and if it still orbits the Earth after Mar. 23, it will break the previous record set by OTV-3.
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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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