And recently we have observed indications of an outlaw state attempting to do the same thing with a short range ballistic missile from a ship.
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The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and first put into service in 2002.
Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballistic missile two months ago, meet both of these tests.
The missiles are deployed with both the U.S. and Japanese navies to defend against short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
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North Korea has significant ballistic short-range missile capabilities, perhaps a few crude nuclear weapons, but no demonstrated ability yet to combine the two.
Substantial Foreign Interest in Defenses: It is these threats, and the advantages of space-based defenses to ameliorate them, that have caught the attention of the Western European Union, whose member countries are already exposed to short- as well as longer-range ballistic missile threats.
The THAAD contract seeks a missile defense system against short and medium range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase of flight.
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In the past week, Pakistan has test-fired two ballistic missiles and India responded by test-firing a new short-range air-defence missile.
The Islamic republic's "short- and medium-range" missiles pose the most current threat, he said, and "this new ballistic missile defense will best address" that threat.
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