Pakistan test fires ballistic missile with a multiple independently target-able reentry vehicle

Pakistan's missile defence programme has entered into yet a new era as it test fires a ballistic missile with a multiple independently target-able reentry vehicle (MIRV).

The nuclear-capable "Ababeel" ballistic missile, demonstrating South Asia’s first MIRV payload, was test fired in January early this year. The missile has been developed indigenously in Pakistan with a claimed maximum range of 2,200 kilometres.

Named "Ababeel" (Swallow) after the incident of storming of holy city of Makkah by elephents and Allah sending thousands and thousands of swallow with a stone in their beaks that hit the elephents with such ferocity that the leephants turned and ran away.

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Russia test-fires two new nuclear missiles

[ via Yahoo News ] 24 Dec

Russia successfully tested on Friday its two new Bulava intercontinental missiles, which experienced several failures in the past.

Bulava ICBM

The Defence Ministry said the 12-meter-long Bulava, or Mace, which Moscow aims to make the cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal, was fired from a submarine in the Arctic White Sea and hit the target, a designated polygon, on Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east.

"The launch was carried out from (the submarine in) submerged position in the White Sea," ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov was quoted by state-run RIA news agency as saying. "Its warheads reached the polygon (target) on time."

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