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The Arrow 2 ballistic missile defense system was successfully tested in southern Israel Tuesday morning, when it destroyed a missile simulating an Iranian Shihab 3. It was the eighteenth test of the Arrow, and the first in which the recently modified Arrow 2 was tested in its entirety, along with a new radar system manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The test was conducted jointly by the IAF and the US Missile Defense Agency. The Arrow is a project developed in cooperation by the IAI and Boeing. The defensive missile was launched around 11 a.m. from the army's Palmahim base...

Stationing of U.S. missile defenses in Poland a threat to Russia -analyst MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax) - The United States' plans to station missile defenses in Poland pose a threat to Russia, a senior Russian analyst said, accusing Washington of deceit and questioning the confidence between the United States and Russia. "It's obvious that, since they are deploying all this in Poland, it is directed against Russia," Alexander Pikayev, head of the disarmament department of the Russian Institute of World Economics and International Relations, said in an interview with Interfax. The U.S. Defense Department said building a missile defense was...

Americans want radar rather than missiles in CzechRep - Topolanek Prague- The United States would probably build a technical background of a missile system and a radar in the Czech Republic rather than a defence missile site, prime minister-designate Mirek Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) said today. He said in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec programme on Czech Television (CT) that no referendum needs to be held on a radar. This is fully within the power of the government and parliament, Topolanek said. Outgoing PM Jiri Paroubek (Social Democrats, CSSD) told Saturday's issue of daily Pravo that the Americans swill not...

Eastern Europe Shuns Missile Shield As the Pentagon scouts Poland and the Czech Republic for possible locations for its planned missile defense shield, locals are proving to be less than enthusiastic about the idea. With its planned new missile defense system, sometimes known as "Son of Star Wars," Washington wants to create a battery of defenses capable of protecting the United States and its allies from oncoming missiles -- nuclear or otherwise. A working version of the defense system does not yet exist and a number of tests have resulted in failure, but Pentagon officials are already scouring Eastern Europe...

most things about North Korea, little is known for certain about the Taepodong 2 missile. But there is no doubt North Korea does have a very long standing and pretty sophisticated missile programme. North Korea's intentions are under the global spotlight In 1998, before it began observing a moratorium on tests, North Korea launched a Taepodong 1 missile which passed over northern Japan and surprised Western intelligence agencies by the use of three stages in the missile's propulsion system. What is striking about the Taepodong 2 is that it could well be North Korea's first genuine intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)...

Poland Undecided on U.S. Offer to Build Anti-Missile Shield 2006-06-30 02:49:13 Xinhua Polish Deputy Defence Minister Stanislaw Koziej said on Thursday that Poland was yet to make any decision on a U.S. offer to build an anti-missile shield in the country, the PAP news agency reported. "I think that we do not have to accept an offer if it is not good for us. We do not have to have such a base on the Polish territory if it does not serve our security," Koziej said during a press conference on the future of transatlantic relations. "No decision has been...