Iran has successfully tested “an upgraded version” of its longest-range, solid-fuel missile, Fox News reports.
State television broke the news in a one-sentence report that gave no details on the test of the Sajjil-2 missile, a high-speed, surface-to-surface missile with a range of about 1,200 miles.
That range places Israel, Iran’s sworn enemy, well within reach and reaches as far away as southeastern Europe with greater precision than earlier models.
Iran has intensified its missile development program in …

According to a Polish daily, the United States will abandon plans to house an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Washington TV reports.
The multi-billion dollar project, intended for defence against attacks from Iran and other rogue states, was to install 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic. It had met with fierce objections from Russia.
The Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, said that Washington was now considering deploying anti-missile …

More than half of Britons – 54% – want to see the Trident nuclear missiles scrapped, a poll suggested.
Support for the renewal of the system has fallen by 9 per cent in the last three years, a survey by ICM for the Guardian newspaper suggested, and 54 per cent of those questioned wanted the UK’s nuclear weapons axed entirely, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The poll showed 42 per cent of those questioned backed the renewal of …

According to a Japanese news report, North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early June.
Japanese newspaper Yomiuri said that the missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, the AP reports. The missile could be launched between 4th and 8th July.
According to Yomiuri, the missile could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, but …

Iran, where presidential election is taking place today, is according to a new report six years away from producing an ocean-leaping missile, capable of hitting the United States, Ynet reports.
“Iran has ambitious ballistic missile and space launch development programs and, with sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States by 2015,” the US Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center report, released on Thursday, said.
The report …