DRDO successfully test fired the Akash-1S surface to air defence missile system. This is a new version of the missile fitted with an indigenous seeker.
Rouhani's comments on Saturday came amid rising tensions with Washington which last week deployed warships and warplanes to the Gulf. He said the renewed US sanctions had led to worse economic conditions than during the country's 1980-88 war with neighbouring Iraq.
The test early Saturday was quickly played down by Trump and his top advisers, who noted it was not the kind of long-range missile leader Kim Jong Un has refrained from launching since 2017.
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed "great satisfaction" over Saturday's drills and stressed that his front-line troops should keep a "high alert posture" and enhance combat ability to "defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country."
India on Wednesday became the fourth country in the world to develop the technology to shoot down 'Low Orbit Satellites'. While doing so India joined USA, China and Russia in an elite group of nations to possess such advanced space technologies.
India's defence lab DRDO successfully tested-fired the indigenously developed guided rocket system 'Pinaka' on Tuesday at Pokhran desert in Rajasthan, officials said.
Pakistan's clamant lie that F16 jets were not part of the aircraft formation that violated Indian airspace on Wednesday was bashed by the Indian Air Force a day after.
Pakistan on Thursday successfully test-fired short range surface-to-surface ballistic missile 'Nasr' as part of Army Strategic Forces Command training exercise, the army said.
Nuclear strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV was successfully test fired from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast on Sunday.
The HD-1 is not like other supersonic missiles as it needs less fuel and flies faster and farther, said a report in the Global Times, after China announced it has struck its biggest drone deal with its all-weather ally Pakistan.
Newly obtained evidence indicates that work is underway on at least one and possibly two liquid-fuelled ICBMs in Sanumdong.
The missile system, with a strike range of 5,000 km and capable of carrying nuclear warhead, are being inducted into the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC), official sources said.
The main role of the BM-21 Grad system is to support the division with suppressive fire to counter anti-tank missile, artillery and mortar positions, destroy strong points and eliminate enemy nodes of resistance on the immediate battlefield.
The test was conducted by the Strategic Force Command of the Indian Army at 8:30 am today.
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is on a sixth-day tour to India, is believed to have told Israeli reporters, while on way to Mumbai, that the two countries will take the deal forward under the 'Make in India' scheme.
These are surface-to-air missiles designed to be used as a ship-borne anti-missile defence system against anti-ship missiles.
This was the fifth experimental test of the homegrown missile system.
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired Saturday from Yemen toward its international airport on the outskirts of capital Riyadh.
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