U.S. to stage missile-defense test over Pacific
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The United States is set to test key   parts of its emerging antimissile shield over the Pacific on   Thursday, officially to collect data, but with the possibility   that a target dummy warhead will be shot down.
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SEOUL, May 25 -- North Korea fired a salvo of short-range test missiles into its coastal waters Friday, flexing naval muscles as South Korea launched its most advanced destroyer, armed with a high-tech U.S. air defense system.
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missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon says. statement from the Missile defence Agency on Wednesday.
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Ships from  Japan, the United States, Australia and France steamed out to  sea under cloudy skies on Tuesday for Asia's first naval  exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass destruction, a drill  that communist North Korea has called hostile and provocative.
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield has failed after the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States&#39; fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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The U.S. military on Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020.
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The looming U.S. Navy attempt to shoot down a dying satellite could demonstrate an anti-satellite capability for its missile defense system.
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Russia test-launches an intercontinental ballistic missile which can be armed with multiple warheads.
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Three large balloons will float above the Pentagon on Saturday as the U.S. Defense Department tests its chemical and biological weapons defenses, department officials said on Friday.
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North Korea is suspected of test-firing a number of short-range missiles off its west coast.
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The U.S. military shot down a dummy   warhead over the Pacific on Friday in what it described as a   "huge step" in development of an anti-missile shield activated   in July to guard against missiles test-fired by North Korea.
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The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese and US government sources said yesterday.
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Australia re-elected a conservative government recently, which will allow the expansion of a crucial part of the U.S. missile defense shield. Critics say the Pine Gap facility could start an arms race in Asia. Patrick Gray reports from Brisbane, Australia.
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The United States and Japan have detected  signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic  missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese  government sources said on Thursday.
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A drill planned to demonstrate the Navy's ability to knock down two incoming missiles at once from the same ship failed off Hawaii's coast on Thursday, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.
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The commander of Russia's strategic missile force says Russia is capable of targeting U.S. missile defense sites if they are built in the Czech Republic and Poland.Comment