Category: Space

Iran’s defense minister refuted an Iranian media report that a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000km was tested two weeks, hours after it was published.

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Zvezda, a TV network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported that the new RS-28 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is capable of destroying an area the size of Texas or France.

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Defense One has a piece on how the Pentagon is spending $10 million to improve on the search for mobile missile launchers by teaching computers on how to filter them out from the surroundings.

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The Pentagon says North Korea tested two Musudan road-mobile ICBMs near the city of Wonsan on Apr. 28 and both failed. The first test occurred at about 6:40 a.m. local time and the second test was conducted 12 hours later at 7:26 p.m.