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	Ballistic missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In order to cover large distances, ballistic missiles are usually launched very high into the air or in space, in a sub-orbital spaceflight; for intercontinental missiles the altitude halfway is ca.
		Long and medium range ballistic missiles are generally designed to deliver nuclear warheads because their payload is too limited for conventional explosives to be efficient.
		The first ballistic missile was the V-2 rocket, developed by Nazi Germany in the 1940s, which was successfully launched for the first time on October 3, 1942 and used for the first time in operation on September 8, 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballistic_missile (402 words)

	Agni [Strategic Ballistic Missile]
		Agni-I is a SRBM (850 km range, 1000 kg payload)
		Agni-IIAT is a IRBM (3900 km range, 1000 kg payload)
		Agni-III is a IRBM (5500 km range, 1200 kg payload)
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MISSILES/Agni.html (8086 words)

	MILNET: Strategic Missiles
		A single missile can eliminate a small city, and most likely kill the majority of the inhabitants of a large city through the lingering effects of radiation and fallout if they are not treated and removed from the area.
		With the radius of death ranging from a few miles to better than 25 in most cases, the nuclear weapon aboard a strategic missile is by far the fastest killing weapon devised.
		Strategic Missiles are typically characterized as long range (ICBM -- Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile with ranges in the 4,000+ nm region) intermediate range (IRBM -- Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile with a range in the 2,000 nm region), and short range (SRBM - Short Range Ballistic Missile with ranges less than 1000nm).
	www.milnet.com /icbm.htm (791 words)

	CIA Official says Missile Threat is Accelerating August 27, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They include: the allure of the ballistic missile; the immediate danger that I just alluded to from short- and medium-range missiles; the status of foreign ICBMs; missile programs in North Korea, Iran, and Iraq; alternative means of delivering weapons of mass destruction; and finally, the proliferation problem.
		Missile proliferation is a changing business, and the changes are making it harder to track and control, increasing the risk of unpleasant surprise.
		Missile proliferation is a technical problem, but it will continue to require a fine-grained understanding of regional political and economic dynamics.
	www.useu.be /Categories/Defense/270801CIAMissileThreatAccelerating.html (2997 words)

	NIC Products - Foreign Missile Developments (2001)
		Emerging ballistic missile states continue to increase the range, reliability, and accuracy of the missile systems in their inventories—posing ever greater risks to US forces, interests, and allies throughout the world.
		The Prithvi II SRBM is a modified Prithvi I with an increased range of 250 km.
		[2] SSBN is the acronym for nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
	www.cia.gov /nic/special_missilethreat2001.html (2911 words)

	Defence Notes
		Again, when both these countries who have worked on derived and ‘reverse engineered’ ballistic missiles call their hardware as totally ‘indigenous’, I would not like to comment on this, and probably this claim is true to the extent that the names of these monsters are surely indigenous.
		Both have acquired ballistic missile delivery systems, although the combat readiness of the missiles is not altogether clear.
		India’s longer-range nuclear-capable missiles such as the Agni, however, are still in the research and development process under the Defence Research and Development Organisation, are believed not to be in serial production, and secure deployment in silos or on rail-mobile launchers-concepts that have been discussed-probably is years away.
	www.defencejournal.com /2002/nov/missile-envy.htm (4250 words)

	SS-21 SCARAB (9K79 Tochka)
		The SS-21 SCARAB (9K79 Tochka) single-stage, short-range, tactical-ballistic missile is transported and fired from the 9P129 6x6 wheeled transporter erector launcher.
		During transport the missile is enclosed with the warhead in a temperature-controlled casing.
		In 1981, the SS-21, a guided missile (providing improvement in both range and accuracy), began replacing the FROG in forward-deployed divisions, and 140 are were deployed as of 1988.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/ss-21.htm (271 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / India tests short-range Trishul missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The solid fuel-propelled Trishul missile, which has a range of six miles, was fired from India's main testing center in Chandipur-on-Sea in the eastern state of Orissa, Defense Ministry spokesman Amitabha Chakrabarti told The Associated Press.
		The missile, developed by the government's Defense Research and Development Organization, is capable of targeting aircraft and sea-skimming missiles, and can carry a warhead of up to 33 pounds.
		India's missile arsenal includes the short-range ballistic missile Prithvi, the medium-range Agni and Akash missiles, the anti-tank Nag missile and the supersonic Brahmos missile.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/03/25/india_tests_short_range_trishul_missile?mode=PF (305 words)

	Defense Department Report, February 25: Missile Defense Update
		The Missile Defense Agency announced the successful test of its ballistic missile defense technology on February 24.
		The SM-3 successfully intercepted a short-range ballistic missile launched from a missile test range in Kauai, 160 kilometers away in Hawaii.
		Ten SM-3 missiles are scheduled for deployment on navy ships by the end of the year and another 20 by 2007.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2005/02-25.htm (255 words)

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		Taiwan has successfully developed a short-range ballistic missile capable of reaching China's southeastern coast, a move arousing both doubt and worry on the part of the Chinese military.
		The mixed feelings held by the leadership of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) toward Taiwan's ballistic missile development are reflected in an article printed yesterday in the Chinese military's mouthpiece, the PLA Daily.
		The report indicated that the PLA leadership -- though still mocking Taiwan's achievements in ballistic missile development -- cannot ignore the fact that Taiwan is steadily progressing in the field.
	taiwansecurity.org /TT/2001/TT-031301.htm (494 words)

	CIA Official Says Missile Threat Is Accelerating
		The possibility that a long-range ballistic missile tipped with a weapon of mass destruction may be used against the United States, its armed forces, or its national security interests "is higher today than it was during most of the Cold War," a senior U.S. intelligence official says.
		The missile threat "will continue to rise as the weapons and missile capabilities of potential adversaries mature," John McLaughlin, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said August 21 at the 4th Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference held in Huntsville, Alabama.
		McLaughlin said that over the next 15 years the United States is most likely to face long-range ballistic missile threats from North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, as well as the continued longstanding threat from Russia and China.
	www.usembassy.it /file2001_08/alia/a1082706.htm (3008 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: Israel: Missile Overview
		The Jericho-I, a short-range ballistic missile, was initially deployed in the early 1970s.
		The contract for the missile system was signed in Tel Aviv in 1963 (the first published report of the Jericho-I missile was by the New York Times in 1971).
		Over the next several years, the French flight-tested the missile almost 20 times from a French airbase, but there is little open source information about the development progress of the missile.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Israel/Missile (1100 words)

	Hatf-1 - Pakistan Missile Special Weapons Delivery Systems
		The Hatf-1 is a single-stage solid-propellant missile with a range of 60 km to 80 km carrying a 500 kg payload, or 350 km with a 100 kg payload.
		Some reports claim that a few copies of the missile were produced and are armed with chemical warheads, though Pakistan does not appear to have a chemical weapons capability.
		The very short range Hatf-1 does not have the range to reach beyond the Indian Desert, and would almost certainly be deployed with a conventional rather than nuclear warhead.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/pakistan/hatf-1.htm (264 words)

	Kauai Garden Island News
		Henry "Trey" Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said yesterday's test was the first using an operationally configured Standard Missile 3 interceptor, designed to intercept and destroy short- to medium-range ballistic missiles.
		The interceptor missile tracked successfully to put itself into the path of the incoming target missile, and collided directly with the missile using only the force of the collision to demonstrate "hit-to-kill" technology.
		The Aegis Weapon System, the basis for the sea-based element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, is currently deployed on 68 U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers, with 18 more ships currently planned to get the system that has offensive and defensive capabilities and the ability to track multiple tar-gets simultaneously.
	www.kauaiworld.com /articles/2005/02/25/news/news02.txt (585 words)

	Iraq Makes Inroads With Missile Program
		The daily wrote that Iraq's liquid-fueled "Al Samoud" missile did not violate United Nations restrictions imposed on Baghdad after the Persian Gulf war in 1991, because the missile's range is less than 150 kilometers (95 miles).
		Still, officials in Washington are concerned that the missiles could transport conventional explosives or the chemical and biological weapons that Iraq is still suspected of hiding.
		Officials also fear that Baghdad may be working to perfect its ballistic missile technology, which could be adapted to missiles with a longer range, the Times wrote.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/bmdo-00zzb.html (544 words)

	Yorkshire CND - NATO Considers National Missile Defenses - 26/11/02
		The leaders agreed to conduct a feasibility study of developing defenses to protect against long- and short-range ballistic missile threats to protect NATO homelands and population centers.
		NATO members have indicated support for other ways of addressing ballistic missile threats, such as through diplomacy and deterrent force, and the joint NATO statement issued by the leaders also stressed that such approaches were not being abandoned.
		Bolton, appearing at the missile conference yesterday, said the new code would be a companion to, rather than a substitute for missile defense.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/bmd/natonmd.htm (835 words)

	KPUA.net - KPUA Hawaii News - Experimental interceptor shoots down short-range missile
		A spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency says it's the fifth kill in six tries for the interceptor, which is called a Standard Missile-Three.
		The target short-range ballistic missile was similar to a Scud missile.
		It was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands at 11 a-m.
	www.kpua.net /news.php?id=4628 (136 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2005/02/25/
		The standard missile 3 interceptor was fired from the cruiser USS Lake Erie, and the intercept occurred just after 11 a.m.
		A Navy statement said the Aegis ballistic missile defense is an integral part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System now being developed, tested and fielded by the Missile Defense Agency as part of a "layered" missile defense designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles during any phase of their flight.
		The SM-3 does not have the range of the experimental, land-based national missile defenses in Alaska and California, and it is envisioned for use in protecting allies or U.S. forces from short-range ballistic missiles -- which have a range from 621 miles to about 3,400 miles -- launched over a body of water.
	starbulletin.com /2005/02/25/news/story5.html (483 words)

	SS-21 SCARAB (9K79 Tochka)
		It is supported by a tactical transloader (9T218) and a 9T238 missile transporter trailer towed by a ZIL-131 truck.
		The missiles slammed into a crowded Grozny marketplace and a maternity ward, killing at least 143 persons, according to reports from the region.
		The missiles are believed by intelligence analysts to have been SS-21s.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/ss-21.htm (281 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DOD Response to Israeli Ballistic Missile Launch The following excerpts provide the response by the Department of Defense to questions concerning Israel's test firing on April 6 of a Jericho ballistic missile.
		The missile test, which was not pre-announced, flew over the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier battle group and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea some 25-40 miles of the cruiser USS Anzio.
		And it was -- the missile was detected almost immediately after launch, which is one of the capabilities of that system.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/pub/ftp/npp/DOD050200.txt (1069 words)

	CNS - UNSCOM Photo - Tamper-proof "tag" on a short-range ballistic missile known as the "FROG." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An UNSCOM inspector examines a tamper-proof "tag" on a short-range ballistic missile known as the "FROG." Beginning in 1973, Iraq purchased a number of these systems from the Soviet Union.
		These missiles are now kept under monitoring by UNSCOM, and all known FROGs have been tagged with a unique serial number.
		At least twice per year, UNSCOM requires Iraq to "corral" a portion of its FROG force for inspection; the serial numbers of the systems to be inspected are provided to Iraq shortly before the inspection begins.
	cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/_frogtag.htm (103 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Missile terror II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Outrage is growing inside the Pentagon over the refusal of the Clinton administration and private peace groups to condemn ongoing Russian ballistic missile attacks against the Chechen capital of Grozny.
		The missile attacks on civilian targets are viewed by the Pentagon as terrorist strikes because of their inaccuracy.
		The target circle of a Scud B -- the area where a launched missile is likely to land -- is 10 city blocks and that for the SS-21 is one block.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18125 (1212 words)

	Air Force Times - News - More News
		An experimental naval interceptor shot down a short-range ballistic missile target during a test over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, missile defense officials said.
		During the test, a target ballistic missile, similar to a Scud, was launched from the island of Kauai at 4 p.m.
		The SM-3 doesn’t have the range of the experimental land-based national missile defenses located in Alaska and California, and it is envisioned for use in protecting allies or U.S. forces from short-range ballistic missiles launched over a body of water.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-685235.php (224 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		The short-range Agni ballistic missile, successfully test-fired last week, is similar to its predecessor, the Agni II, the Hindu reported Sunday (see GSN, Jan. 29).
		The test would assess the missile’s ability to carry more weight and would not be a response to India’s Agni missile test last week, Jang reported (see GSN, Jan. 28).
		The Agni missile test was originally scheduled for mid-December, but India postponed the test after the Dec. 13 attack on the Indian Parliament, because the test would have increased tensions between India and Pakistan, according to the Hindu.
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2002_1_30_misp.html (552 words)

	Raytheon Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The challenge of destroying ballistic missiles of any range, in any phase of flight, is among the most complex problems our nation has ever undertaken.
		The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the ballistic and cruise missiles that could deliver them to their targets, threaten the security of our nation, deployed forces, and our friends and allies around the world.
		The operational Ballistic Missile Defense System must be capable of intercepting any threat missile, every time, whether it is right off our coastline or as far away as another continent.
	www.raytheonmissiledefense.com /static/node3864.html (321 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		The report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States was unanimous.
		The resolution stated in part that "North Korea is developing the Taepo Dong intermediate range ballistic missile, which is expected to have sufficient range to put at risk United States territories, forces and allies throughout the Asia-Pacific area.
		Multi-stage missiles like the Taepo Dong class missile can ultimately be extended to intercontinental range." The resolution directs that "the recommendations of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States should be incorporated into the analytical processes of the United States intelligence community as soon as possible."
	www.rense.com /politics2/wnuke.htm (1682 words)

	India test fires nuclear-capable missile - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dhanush missile, which has a range of 250 and capable of carrying nuclear warheads, was launched from an Indian navy ship in the Bay of Bengal, an official who demanded anonymity, said.
		Top defence ministry officials witnessed the launch of the missile, which was fired at 12.20 pm.
		Pakistan, which frequently carries out missile tests, refused to comment on the test but pointed out that it was against an arms race.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5544 (614 words)

	Bloomberg Printer-Friendly Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The missiles are mobile and have ranges of 372 miles (600 kilometers) and 186 miles (300 kilometers), respectively.
		``As Beijing increases the accuracy and lethality of its conventional ballistic missile arsenal, a growing and significant challenge is posed to U.S. forces in the Western Pacific, as well as to allies and friends, including Taiwan,'' the report said.
		Aside from the missile trend, it rehashes the earlier document.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=71000001&refer=asia&sid=a4t.f8ZJfDUY (710 words)

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