AGNIBAAN mission launch postponed due to technical issues
India | March 22, 2024 0:05 ISTThe postponement of the AGNIBAAN SOrTeD Mission launch was attributed to technical glitches encountered during the pre-launch preparations.
The postponement of the AGNIBAAN SOrTeD Mission launch was attributed to technical glitches encountered during the pre-launch preparations.
Since 2021, North Korea has conducted at least 10 rounds of tests of what it described as long-range cruise missiles fired from both land and sea.
Kim said the launch demonstrated the evolution of the North's nuclear doctrine and strategy “not to hesitate even with a nuclear attack when the enemy provokes it with nukes".
Kim stressed the need to “never overlook all the reckless and irresponsible military threats of the enemies … and to strongly counter them with more offensive actions".
North Korea in recent months has test-launched a spate of missiles in what experts call an attempt to modernize its weapons and pressure its rivals to accept the country as a nuclear state and relax their sanctions.
Reports surfaced that residents in Jamshoro area of Pakistan's Sindh province noticed some unidentified object with smoke falling from the sky. The missile within moments after the launch was seen descending from the path and crashed near Thana Bula Khan in Sindh.
Ending a monthslong lull in September, North Korea has been ramping up its weapons tests while making conditional peace offers to Seoul.
In September, North Korea resumed its first missile tests in six months but still offered conditional talks with Seoul in what some experts say is an attempt to extract concessions in its nuclear diplomacy with the U.S.
South Korea’s military said in a statement Wednesday that it had detected two suspected cruise missile launches by North Korea on Sunday morning. It said the launches were made off North Korea’s west coast and said South Korea is analyzing them.
India successfully test-fired the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile system on Friday off the coast of Balasore, Odisha.
Advanced version of the DRDO-developed Pinaka successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off coast in Odisha on November 04.
The Korean Central News Agency said the test of the Pukguksong-3 missile in the waters off its east coast was successful and “ushered in a new phase in containing the outside forces’ threat to (North Korea) and further bolstering its military muscle for self-defense.”
The Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) conducted five successful test-flights of air-to-air missile Astra between September 16 and 19 over the Bay of Bengal off Odisha coast, officials said here on Thursday.
India's indigenously designed air-to-air missile Astra was successfully test-fired from the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Odisha on Tuesday. The beyond-visual-range missile was launched from Sukhoi-30 MKI as a part of user trials.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been hinting at a nuclear confrontation ever since India abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories. India, however, has consistently maintained this was an internal issue.
The air defence system, QRSAM, was test-fired at 11.05 am from a mobile truck-based launch unit at complex 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here, DRDO sources said.
The interceptor was launched from Abdul Kalam Island at about 8.05 pm, sources said.
North Korea said on Saturday it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site ahead of a new round of negotiations with South Korea and the United States.
During the phone call, Trump underscored the determination of the US to defend itself and its allies from the growing threat posed by the North Korean regime, the White House said.
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