Weapons

North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States.

North Korea on Thursday conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in a month, possibly testing a new type of more mobile, harder-to-detect weapons system, its neighbors said, in an extension of the North's provocative run of missile tests.

Israel signed a 1.44 billion shekel ($400 million) deal to sell Spike anti-tank missiles to Greece, Israel's Defense Ministry said on Monday, just days after reaching a similar-sized deal to provide air defenses to newly-inducted NATO member Finland.

The Spike is a guided anti-tank missile used by many EU and NATO countries produced by Israeli state-owned defence contractor Rafael.

Greece will continue to supply Ukraine with ammunition of all kinds but has refused the invaded country's request to send any of its Soviet- and Russian-made air defense missile-systems (S-300, TOR-M1 and OSA-AK).

A spokesman for the Indian Ministry of Defense said that it was planned to fire one short- or medium-range missile at a fast-moving aerial target, reports India Today.

The US Department of Defense has begun preparing the US Space Force (USSF) for a possible future conflict with Russia and China in space, the Wall Street Journal reported. The decision comes amid Russia and China deploying lasers and missiles that could disable satellites and disrupt civilian communications.

3,000 soldiers and about 300 technical units are participating in the exercises.
It is about checking the missile forces and exercises in which the Novosibirsk missile forces also take part, says the Ministry, as reported by Sputnik.
Maneuvers with "Yars" systems will be carried out in three regions of Russia.

"Air defense systems intercepted eighteen missiles from HIMARS multi-barrel rocket launchers and one GLSDB guided missile," according to the ministry's daily report.
This ammunition is a joint project of Boeing and Swedish Saab, which added a rocket engine to the bomb and adapted it to launch from ground systems, Novosti reported.

This was reported today by the Russian state news agency TASS.
It is recalled that in January of this year, Moscow announced that it had produced the first set of "Poseidon" torpedoes, four years after Vladimir Putin announced a new type of strategic nuclear weapon, confirming that it would have its own power supply.

An effort is under way by the Defense Ministry to overcome the obstacles created by an old legal dispute between the Greek state and the company that supplies new heavy-duty torpedoes (SeaHake Mod 4) for the Hellenic Navy's submarines.