He said that rebels couldn't confirm whether either rocket one a Luna rocket, from the Soviet short-range artillery series, and another short-range rocket of unidentified make could hold a chemical warhead.
The S-Class will sport a stereo camera on the windshield to peer ahead in 3D, short- and long-range radar in front and rear, and short-range radar on the sides.
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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.
Mr. HERZOG: The issue is the following: Hezbollah longer-range missiles and short-range missiles.
The more productive way to approach the subject, however, is to consider the problem of long-range thinking in short-range matters.
The Israeli military said an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery - designed to intercept short-range missiles - which was positioned near Eilat earlier this month was not deployed in the latest attack.
Israel said it launched the offensive in Gaza to stop the firing of rockets -- primarily the short-range homemade Qassam rockets -- from the territory into southern Israel by Hamas fighters.
"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.
Albert, 60, had bought Fairchild out of a previous bankruptcy in 1990 and turned it into the third-largest manufacturer of short-range jets, in part by acquiring 80% of Daimler-Benz's Dornier unit.
Its 1996 manifesto called for producing and deploying missiles under development in India, the short-range Prithvi and intermediate-range Agni.
Finally, there is the problem that even some Democrats on Capitol Hill - notably, Senator Joe Lieberman (technically an Independent who caucuses with Democrats) and Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairmen respectively of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees - recognize could eventuate at any time: an attack involving relatively short-range, ship-borne ballistic missiles used to launch a strategic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against this country.
His comments came amid growing concern across the globe over North Korea's latest nuclear test and test-firings of short-range missiles.
They are the rapid build-up of short-range ballistic missiles on China's coast facing Taiwan, and the purchase of sophisticated weaponry from Russia, including destroyers, submarines and fighter aircraft.
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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During the recent Gaza conflict, the Israeli defence ministry claimed the first layer of that shield - the Iron Dome - knocked down 421 of 1, 354 short-range missiles fired from Gaza.
At that stage, North Korea had reverse-engineered Soviet Scud B short-range ballistic missiles, which North Korea supplied along with submarines and guns to Iran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.
But Russia also has thousands of SA-5, SA-10, and SA-12 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) defending against short-and medium-range missiles such as those in the arsenals of China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.
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Following as it does on the heels of hasty and ill-considered decisions on short-range nuclear forces and conventional arms control in the context of the NATO summit, this action suggests that President Bush will increasingly be approaching the tough and technically complex issues of contemporary weaponry and arms control without the benefit of adequate inputs from competent governmental experts.
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North Korea routinely fires short-range missiles into the sea but longer-range missile launches are less common.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Of course, that's under "ideal" circumstances, but even in subpar situations, the range should still beat out existing short-range alternatives.
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Gaffney, Jr. observed in a column distributed by National Review Online on Monday, the urgency with which such deployments must be undertaken has grown as awareness spreads of a heretofore under-appreciated danger: the threat of short-range missiles launched from ships off the U.S. coasts.
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And Israel is developing its own anti-missile system to guard against the short- and medium-range rockets that Hizbullah showered on the north of the country.
The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and first put into service in 2002.
Wi-Fi, by contrast, is a short-range service covering small areas, like coffee shops.
He said NFC (Near-Field Communication), a kind of short-range wireless connectivity being built into smartphones, is probably not the answer.
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Last week, Australia's Lowy Institute published a report by Burma expert Andrew Selth on the junta's alleged long-running efforts to secure Scud-type short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) from North Korea and other sources.
Data can be moved in and out of the chip at speeds of up to 10 megabits per second - far faster than is possible with other short-range radio systems such as Bluetooth or Radio Frequency ID tags.
For another, were the Clinton Administration to refrain from negotiating new limits on theater missile defenses (nominally for the purpose of arbitrarily "demarcating" the distinction between anti-short-range systems and anti-long-range systems), U.S. theater defenses could be optimized to provide protection against all classes of ballistic missiles, at least under certain circumstances.
And other wireless networking technologies such as Wi-Fi are gaining popularity, but mostly for short-range networks in offices and homes.
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