LIBYAN RESISTANCE: Libya News Col Gaddafi fires scud missile at rebel territory as Nato braces itself for final violent showdown!

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By Damien McElroy, Zintan, Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk / 9:00PM BST 15 Aug 2011.

The rebels were attempting to identify the trajectory of the missile which was fired from Col Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte even as his envoys headed for new talks with the opposition and a United Nations special envoy in Tunisia.

Despite rumours that he is preparing to flee, the opposition fear Col Gaddafi is preparing a desperate last stand in Tripoli and towns still loyal to him in the face of recent rebel advances on two fronts which has cut off his crucial supply routes.

In the early hours of Monday morning, the defiant Libyan leader addressed his people, calling on them to take up arms and "defend their fatherland" and predicting a swift end for "the rats" and the "coloniser" - the rebels and NATO.

But in a further sign of his weakening position, his deputy interior minister, said to be a long-time devoted loyalist, then apparently defected. Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo with nine members of his family claiming he was taking a holiday.

The launch of the ballistic Scud missile, which has a range of more than 200 miles, was detected by a US Aegis destroyer in the Mediterranean on Sunday, officials told The Daily Telegraph.

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THE DRAGON: China's carrier killer missile under going tests!

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• July 12, 2011 
• PTI 
• Beijing / DC.

China's ambitious new long-range ballistic missile with a range of 2,700 km, dubbed the 'carrier-killer', is undergoing tests, a top military official has said.

Chen Bingde, chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff acknowledged that China is developing the Dongfeng-21D with an ability to strike moving targets - including aircraft carriers - at sea.

"The missile is still undergoing experimental testing and will be used as a weapon for defence when it is successfully developed, not an offensive one," Chen was quoted as saying during his rare interaction with media, coinciding after talks with Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff here yesterday.

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INDIAN DEFENCE SELF-RELIANCE: India all set to test new short-range tactical missile!

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Y. MALLIKARJUN / The Hindu / HYDERABAD, July 3, 2011.

‘Prahaar' (to strike), a totally new quick-reaction, short-range tactical missile, which will fill the gap for such a battlefield weapon system in India's missile arsenal, is all set to be flight-tested on July 17.

This was stated here on Saturday by Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Director General, Defence Research and Development Organisation, V.K. Saraswat after inaugurating a new facility of Analogic Controls India Ltd. (ACIL) that manufactures electronic systems for mission critical defence and space applications.

Talking to journalists, Dr. Saraswat said the 150 km-range missile would replace unguided rockets and “is going to be an excellent weapon.” It would bridge the gap between Pinaka, a 40-km range multi-barrel rocket system, and the 350-km Prithvi-II, which had been converted into a strategic missile. Unguided rockets of 90-km range had also been imported from Russia.

Dr. Saraswat said that at present the services did not have a weapon such as Prahaar. The missile would be equipped with omni-directional warheads and could be used for hitting both tactical and strategic targets. The road-mobile system could be pulled out for quick deployment with each launcher carrying six missiles. “With different types of warheads, you can have different types of missiles from the same launcher,” he added.

Stating that the DRDO-developed missile was cost-effective, Dr. Saraswat said that only a few would be required to cause devastation equivalent to that produced by several unguided rockets. Initially, the missile would be given to the Army and later to other services.

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PERSIAN FIRE POWER: Iran test fires 14 missiles!

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June 28, 2011 / IANS, TEHRAN / DC.

Ballistic missile Zelzal is launched during the second day of military exercises, codenamed Great Prophet-6, for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards at an undisclosed location in Iran - AFP.

Iran on Tuesday successfully test fired 14 missiles during the second phase of a war game.

The test took place at the Great Prophet 6 War Game, IRNA reported.

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Pak Cauldron: US missile strike kills three in Pakistan: officials!

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June 20, 2011 / AFP, Peshawar, Pakistan / DC.

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A US missile strike destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan's lawless tribal district of Kurram on Monday, killing three militants near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.

US drone strikes routinely target Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants holed up in Pakistan's tribal belt, but the operations are normally concentrated on insurgent strongholds in Waziristan, rather than Kurram.

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