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Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

A mysterious Russian satellite soaring at the outer limits of orbit around the Earth has triggered fears that Moscow is developing a space-based platform to launch missiles - perhaps even nuclear weapons - to destroy untold numbers of vital satellites. The 'Cosmos 2553' satellite was blasted through the atmosphere atop a Soyuz-2 rocket from Russia 's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in February …

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Russian ballistic missile allegedly targets Ukraine’s Dnipro: Video sparks global concern | WATCH

India TV News

A video has been released showing what is believed to be a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Video of the suspected missile launch emerged A video posted online showed a bright light in the sky, reportedly capturing an RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from Russia. Specifications : 12 metres long, weighing 36 tons : 12 …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

China raises WW3 nuke fears as it unleashes intercontinental missile with dummy warhead in rare test-fire over Pacific Ocean

Daily Mail

China launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean this morning for the first time in decades, ramping up concerns in a region already tense over Beijing's territorial claims and rivalry with the US. This file photo taken on October 1, 2019 shows China's DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles during a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing Chinese …

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3 months ago

North Korea’s Kim calls for bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing two missiles

The Hindu

North Korea said on Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised successful tests of two types of missiles — one designed to carry a “super-large conventional warhead" and the other likely for a nuclear warhead, as he ordered officials to bolster up his country's military capabilities to repel US-led threats. The tests were apparent references to the multiple missile launches …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Skies above Southern California wildfire looked like ‘a nuclear warhead had been set off’

LA Times

Firefighters from the Mill Creek hotshot crew monitor the Line fire burning over a ridge off Highway 38 on Monday. “It was a giant mushroom with compact billowy clouds and crazy smoke rings around it on the plume coming up.” As mountain residents remained on guard, firefighting crews in Southern California continued to battle out-of-control wildfires Monday that had scorched …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Korea says its recent missile tests involved new ballistic missile with 'super-large warhead'

The Hindu

North Korea said on July 2 it had test-fired a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a huge warhead, as the country is pushing to modernise its weapons arsenal to cope with what it calls U.S.-led threats. South Korea's military earlier said that North Korea launched two ballistic missiles from one of its southwestern towns in a northeastern direction …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Korea brags of new missile with ‘super-large warhead.’ Outsiders doubt the North’s claim

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday it had test-fired a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying “a super-large warhead,” a claim quickly disputed by South Korean officials and experts who speculate the North likely fabricated a successful test to conceal a botched launch. The test apparently refers to the two ballistic missile launches that South Korea said …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Korea claims ballistic missile test with ‘superlarge warhead’

Al Jazeera

North Korea has said it successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile capable of carrying a 4.5-tonne “superlarge warhead”, state media reported. A day earlier, South Korea’s military reported the launch of two ballistic missiles by North Korea and said the second likely failed soon after it was fired, blowing up in flight over land. That missile’s trajectory suggested a …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile

Hindustan Times

By Hyonhee Shin North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile SEOUL -North Korea has successfully conducted an important test aimed at developing missiles carrying multiple warheads, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday, a claim rejected by South Korea as "deception" to mask a failed launch. The dispatch came a day after South Korea's military said North …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile

Hindustan Times

By Hyonhee Shin North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile SEOUL, - North Korea has successfully conducted an important test aimed at developing missiles carrying multiple warheads, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday, a claim rejected by South Korea as "deception" to mask a failed launch. The dispatch came a day after South Korea's military said …

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8 months ago

North Korea conducts test on new ‘super-large warhead’: State media

Al Jazeera

Pyongyang says new warhead designed for cruise missiles, adding that a new anti-aircraft rocket was also tested. North Korea has conducted a test on a “super-large warhead” designed for a strategic cruise missile, state media reports, adding that it also launched a new type of anti-aircraft missile. “The DPRK Missile Administration has conducted a power test of a super-large warhead …

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8 months ago

North Korea tests cruise missile with ‘super-large warhead’

Hindustan Times

North Korea has tested a "super-large warhead" designed for a strategic cruise missile, state media said Saturday, the most recent test since UN sanctions monitoring against the nuclear-armed nation was upended last month by Russia. In this photo provided Saturday by the North Korean government, a missile that the state media call "Hwasal-1 Ra-3 strategic cruise missile", is launched from …

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9 months, 1 week ago

India test-fires Agni-V ballistic missile with multiple warhead technology under Mission Divyastra

The Hindu

In a major technological breakthrough and building in redundancy into the country’s nuclear weapons programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced the successful test firing of Agni-V ballistic missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle technology by the Defence Research and Development Organisation under Mission Divyastra. The mission accomplished the designed parameters.” “Proud of our DRDO scientists for Mission …

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10 months, 1 week ago

UFO whistleblowers reveal how the space shuttle ‘zapped’ the US nuke in 1964 ‘using laser beams’

Hindustan Times

The incident involving a UFO and a US nuclear missile has been revealed by several former military officers, who claim to have witnessed the event on film. The missing tape that shows a UFO ‘engaging’ a US nuclear warhead in 1964 The incident occurred on September 15, 1964, when an Atlas missile carrying a dummy warhead was launched from Vandenberg …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with 'laser-beams' in mid-air over California

Daily Mail

The US military is in possession of a video of a UFO apparently disabling a nuclear warhead during a routine test, according to multiple former officials. Elizondo says he was the former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program program to study UFOs, and he has been involved in several high-profile leaks of military footage purporting to show …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Inert Cold War-era missile found in Ohio man's garage after he tried donating it to US Air Force museum

Hindustan Times

An old rusted rocket, which was designed to carry an inert Cold War-era nuclear missile, was found in a Ohio man’s garage. Police in Bellevue, Washington, discovered the rusted rocket after they were alerted about a call received by the National Museum of the US Air Force in Ohio. The device discovered is "in fact a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an …

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11 months, 1 week ago

North Korea tests hypersonic missile: What is this warhead, how does it work?

Firstpost

Another month and here comes a new missile test from North Korea. North Korea’s first hypersonic missile test in 2021 featured a glider-shaped warhead, while a 2022 launch used what South Korean military officials and analysts said was actually a conical manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle, or a ballistic missile warhead capable of manoeuvring to hit a target. AP North Korea fired …

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11 months, 1 week ago

North Korea says it has tested new hypersonic missile that could reach Japan

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy North Korea said it tested …

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11 months, 1 week ago

North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile with hypersonic warhead

Al Jazeera

Latest test ratchets up tensions days after Kim Jong Un designated South Korea as an enemy state. North Korea said it has tested a new solid-fuel missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead as it continued efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry. “This launch is more than just a test as it comes immediately after the Kim regime escalated warlike …

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1 year, 3 months ago

This is what it’s like to maintain the US nuclear arsenal

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. The Associated Press was granted rare access to nuclear missile bases and weapons production facilities to see how technicians keep the arsenal working while starting the government’s biggest nuclear overhaul since the Cold War. At the Energy Department’s Kansas City National Security Campus, where warheads are maintained and made, technicians put components through endless …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons

Associated Press

KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Jacob Deas, 23, left, and Airman 1st Class Jonathan Marrs, 21, right, secure the titanium shroud at the top of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile on Aug. 24, 2023, at the Bravo 9 silo at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. In …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Iran unveils attack drone capable of striking Israel

Al Jazeera

The new version of the Mohajer, which carries a larger warhead, was unveiled a day after Israeli PM blamed Iran for recent attacks. These include the Haj Qassem, named after General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US in Iraq in January 2020, reportedly using an MQ-9 Reaper, and the Khorramshahr, named after the city whose recapture in 1982 …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Indigenous heavy weight torpedo hits bull’s eye in live test by Indian Navy

The Hindu

Indigenously designed and developed heavy weight torpedo Varunastra was on June 6 successfully test-fired with a live warhead against an undersea target, by the Indian Navy. “Induction of Varunastra has begun after extensive trials and will become the mainstay of anti-submarine torpedo for all naval warships,” a defence source said. Varunastra is a ship-launched anti-submarine torpedo having low drift navigational …

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1 year, 6 months ago

U.S. wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control in post-treaty world

The Hindu

The White House is ready to have talks with Russia without preconditions about a future nuclear arms control framework even as it is enacting countermeasures in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to suspend the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries. Putin announced in February he was suspending Russia’s cooperation with the New START Treaty's provisions …

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Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

Russian ballistic missile allegedly targets Ukraine’s Dnipro: Video sparks global concern | WATCH

China raises WW3 nuke fears as it unleashes intercontinental missile with dummy warhead in rare test-fire over Pacific Ocean

North Korea’s Kim calls for bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing two missiles

Skies above Southern California wildfire looked like ‘a nuclear warhead had been set off’

North Korea says its recent missile tests involved new ballistic missile with 'super-large warhead'

North Korea brags of new missile with ‘super-large warhead.’ Outsiders doubt the North’s claim

North Korea claims ballistic missile test with ‘superlarge warhead’

North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile

North Korea claims successful test to develop multiple warhead missile

North Korea conducts test on new ‘super-large warhead’: State media

North Korea tests cruise missile with ‘super-large warhead’

India test-fires Agni-V ballistic missile with multiple warhead technology under Mission Divyastra

UFO whistleblowers reveal how the space shuttle ‘zapped’ the US nuke in 1964 ‘using laser beams’

Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with 'laser-beams' in mid-air over California

Inert Cold War-era missile found in Ohio man's garage after he tried donating it to US Air Force museum

North Korea tests hypersonic missile: What is this warhead, how does it work?

North Korea says it has tested new hypersonic missile that could reach Japan

North Korea says it tested solid-fuel missile with hypersonic warhead

This is what it’s like to maintain the US nuclear arsenal

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons

Iran unveils attack drone capable of striking Israel

Indigenous heavy weight torpedo hits bull’s eye in live test by Indian Navy

U.S. wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control in post-treaty world