Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday is the latest escalation in the Ukraine war. It also marks a decisive, and potentially dangerous moment in Moscow’s conflict ...

The missile fired by Russia at Ukraine last week, hailed by Putin as a new kind of experimental hypersonic weapon, was actually an application of old technology used for many years in ...

Missile experts said the "Oreshnik" appeared to have a MIRV, or multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle, payload, which can carry multiple warheads. A larger range The missile's possible ...

Land-based MIRV missiles like the Satan missile were banned by the 1993 United States-Russia START II agreement, but Russia withdrew from that accord in 2002 after President George W. Bush's ...

India test-fires its long-range nuclear-capable Agni-5 missile on September 15, 2013. India tested the Agni-5 missile with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) technology for ...

In March, India successfully tested a MIRV missile, the Agni-5, which it said launched multiple warheads some 2,000 miles away, about half its stated operational range.

Mirv technology was first developed in the 1970s by the US, and provides strategic advantages because of its capability to overcome ballistic missile defences by inundating the adversary’s ...

North Korea said it tested a multiwarhead missile in the first known launch of a developmental weapon coveted by leader Kim Jong Un to overwhelm U.S. and South Korean missile defenses.

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Russia’s use of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday is the latest escalation in the Ukraine war. It also marks a decisive, and potentially dangerous moment in Moscow’s conflict ...