DefenceTalkFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Sunday warned Iran of possible European sanctions over its recent ballistic missile launches. “If necessary, sanctions will be taken,” Ayrault said after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry and several European counterparts. Kerry described the launches — which the US has asked to be discussed at […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sanctions-possible-over-iran-ballistic-missile-launches-france-67036/

DefenceTalkIran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has tested ballistic missiles for the second straight day in an attempt to show strength and in defiance of U.S. warnings. The IRGC fired two missiles, Qadr-H and Qadr-F, from the heights of the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported. The missiles traveled […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-tests-medium-range-missiles-show-strength-67005/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea in the latest saber-rattling move amid the ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills, South Korea’s military said Thursday. According to the Joint Chief of Staff (JCS), the two missiles were fired around 5:20 a.m. from North Hwanghae Province and hit waters northeast of the port […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-fires-two-short-range-missiles-into-east-sea-67003/

DefenceTalkIran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests Tuesday in what it said was a display of “deterrent power,” defying US sanctions imposed earlier this year aimed at disrupting its missile program. State media announced that short-, medium- and long-range precision guided missiles were fired from several sites to show the country’s “all-out readiness to confront threats” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-conducts-new-missile-tests-defying-us-sanctions-66996/

DefenceTalkSM-6 air defense interceptor proves surface-to-surface engagement capability PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii: Raytheon Company’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) successfully engaged a surface target — the decommissioned USS Reuben James (FFG 57) — in a recent flight test. The test was a demonstration of the U.S. Navy’s concept of “distributed lethality,” employing ships in dispersed formations […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-standard-missile-6-successfully-hits-surface-target-66956/

DefenceTalkFurther trials of the Storm Shadow deep strike missile and Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air missile have been successfully completed as part of a program of improvements which will further enhance the powerful swing-role capability of the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet. It has been confirmed that a new operational release of the Storm Shadow missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eurofighter-typhoon-continues-storm-shadow-and-meteor-missile-trials-66703/

DefenceTalkJapan said Wednesday it would destroy a North Korean missile if it threatened to fall on its territory, after Pyongyang announced it planned to launch a space rocket this month. “Today the defence minister issued an order” to destroy such a missile if it “is confirmed that it will fall on Japanese territory,” the defence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-will-destroy-north-korea-missile-66656/

DefenceTalkSatellite imagery analysis suggests North Korea may be preparing a long-range ballistic missile launch, Japan’s Kyodo News reported Thursday, January 28, citing a Japanese government source. Imagery collected over the past several days suggested the launch from the western Dongchang-ri site could come in about a week, Kyodo said. While the report did not provide […]https://www.defencetalk.com/images-suggest-north-korea-may-be-preparing-missile-launch-66593/

DefenceTalkPakistan on Tuesday conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) – Ra’ad – said the military’s media wing in a statement. The flight test of the cruise missile, which is also known as Hatf VIII, was the seventh since it was first tested in 2007. It is essentially […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-successfully-tests-raad-cruise-missile-ispr-66425/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an incoming target during a U.S. Navy live-fire exercise at China Lake in California. Raytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/searam-hits-target-with-newest-missile-variant-in-us-navy-test-66347/