Boeing 737s compete mainly with Airbus's A320s in the short-to-medium range, narrow body jet market.
They do nothing but posture as the regime builds atomic bombs and tests medium range ballistic missiles.
They may already have the missile technology to launch medium range nuclear warheads.
And there've been big gains also in medium range forecasts - those that go out to 3-7 days ahead.
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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As in the previous two events, the Navy shot down an Aries rocket simulating a Scud class short to medium range missile.
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In the last several years, Iran has maintained a very close relationship with Venezuela including nuclear cooperation and now placement of medium range missiles.
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Urge Taiwan to invest in a series of unmanned aircraft for several purposes, to include high-altitude surveillance and communication nodes, and medium range precision attack.
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Then, Mr Stevenson electrified the world with his charge - backed up by photographic evidence - that the Soviet Union had installed medium range missiles in Cuba.
It also announced it would deploy the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to Guam, to protect the military base there from medium range North Korean rockets.
Soon, 30 Mil Mi-28 attack helicopters the current standard for Russian forces in all-weather, day-night, operations and 42 Pantsir-S1 short to medium range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft systems again the latest in Russian technology and capable of defense against stealth aircraft will be headed to Iraq.
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"North Korea has short and medium range missiles that could complicate a situation on the Korean peninsula (and perhaps reach Japan), but we have not seen any evidence that it has long-range missiles that could strike the continental U.S., Guam or Hawaii, " wrote James Hardy, Asia-Pacific editor at IHS Jane's Defense Weekly, in a note to clients on Tuesday.
"At the NATO summit in April, we adopted a resolution focusing on building a defense system against real, existing threats, i.e. short-range and medium-range missiles, " Fischer said.
The report, which was signed by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and sent to senators and U.S. representatives on defense committees, said Iran is continuing to develop other missiles that can hit Israel and Eastern Europe, including an extended-range Shabab-3 and a medium-range ballistic missile called the Ashura that can fly more than 1, 200 miles.
Those growing capabilities include short-range missiles designed to hit sea-based targets as well as medium-range Shahab and Ghadr missiles.
Israel's Iron Dome can protect against short-range missiles, and recently upgraded Arrow systems are designed to thwart advanced medium-range missiles.
U.S. officials believe the North is preparing to test fire a medium-range "Musudan" missile.
Until then, the real Iranian threat comes from hundreds of short- and medium-range missiles.
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In October, Pakistan tested a medium-range nuclear-capable missile which could hit targets deep in India.
But Western Europe is at present developing nothing that could be used to stop medium-range rockets.
Kadish's words, "eliminate the opportunity for the earliest possible contingency against medium-range ballistic missiles abroad"?
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The self-guided Russian R-77 medium-range air-to-air missile is almost as good as the U.S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.
The official added, "It's not particularly difficult to fire off" short- and medium-range missiles.
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Analysts say the Syrian government maintains up to 400 of the short- and medium-range Russian-developed Scud missiles.
More recently, it is thought to have helped both Iran and Pakistan develop their latest medium-range missiles.
But Britain believes Iran has also conducted at least three secret tests of medium-range ballistic missiles since October.
It was destroyed in 2007 when China targeted it for a test of a ground-based, medium-range ballistic missile.
Others thought that the Reagan administration's decision to put medium-range cruise and Pershing nuclear missiles in Europe was mistaken.
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Both sides have short and medium-range ballistic missiles which could deliver nuclear warheads.
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