Ballistics

Greece has condemned North Korea's launch of a powerful new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and urged Pyongyang to "desist taking any fresh action that could endanger peace and stability in the region."

"The act is a violation of international law and undermines international security and stability," the Foreign Ministry in Athens said in a statement.

DPRK has successfully launched a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile "Hawson-15" that is capable of striking the United States, said North Korea's state-owned television, quoted by TASS, said.

North Korea may be building a submarine capable of carrying ballistic missiles. This assumption is made by US experts in an article that Washington's analytical site, 38 North published today, US news agencies reported.

Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its "destructive and reckless path" of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement, Reuters reports.

Warships from eight NATO countries participated in live-fire self-defense exercises of ship and missile systems near Scotland on Sunday the U.S. Department of Defense said, quoted by Reuters.

Ships from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States defended against a medium-range missile as well as three anti-ship cruise missiles.

According to a Russian lawmaker, who has just returned from North Korea, Pyongyang is ready to test a missile capable of reaching the US western coast.
“They are preparing for a new test of a longer-range missile. They even gave us mathematical calculations that they believe prove that their missile can hit the western coast of the United States,” Morozov said.

US President Donald Trump once again expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the nuclear agreement with Iran, criticizing Tehran for a missile test, and accusing them of cooperating with North Korea, TASS reported, quoted by BTA.

"Iran has just tested a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel. Not much of an agreement we have", wrote the American president on Twitter.

Six arrests have been made in connection with a shooting that sent a woman to the hospital after a bullet ricocheted and struck her in the abdomen.

The shooting happened shortly before midnight outside a barber's shop in Korydallos, western Athens. The 29-year-old woman was hit and injured by a ricochet bullet while she was sitting at a nearby cafe.

The elite troops are also getting an arsenal of new weapons, tried and tested by US special forces.

Lethal bullets designed to “drop” jihadis on the spot will be issued in the next few weeks.

One type of ammunition – the Rapidly Invasive Projectile, or RIP – is designed to cause the maximum internal damage to a target.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test of a new anti-aircraft weapon system and ordered its mass production and deployment throughout the country, the state news agency reported on Sunday, after weeks of defiant ballistic missile tests.