India has carried out air defence exercise (ADE) of an advance high supersonic missile from the Inner Wheeler Island inside the Bay of Bengal close to the Dhamra coast on Thursday.

Indian strategic forces have successfully tested a nuclear-capable Agni A-I short-range ballistic missile, India's Defense Ministry said Friday.

India could soon test its first submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Press Trust of India quoted the Defense Ministry as saying Tuesday, denying that it has already test-fired an SLBM.

Pakistan successfully tested its Babur Hatf VII cruise missile, capable of carrying a variety of warheads, including nuclear, local television channels said citing military sources Thursday.

North Korea successfully launched advanced short-range missiles last week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted the commander of U.S. Forces Korea as saying Monday.

Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are preparing two test launches of heavy R-36M2 Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan) intercontinental ballistic missiles, the forces' commander said Tuesday.

South Korea says North Korea has test fired missiles into the waters off its coast. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the Bush administration reaction from Germany, where President Bush is attending the G-8 summit of the leading industrialized nations.

As talks on nuclear weapons stalled North Korea fired missiles into waters off its coast Thursday in an apparent test launch.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that as Washington was suspected of triggering new arms race, meaning planned deployment of U.S. missile defense installations, Russia tested its new missiles.

Russia has tested new strategic and tactical missiles at a time when tensions with the United States remain high over Washington's plans to locate parts of a missile-defense system in Central Europe.

Media of Japan and South Korea reported Friday that N. Korea had fired several short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan. Japan's public broadcaster and other media, citing Japanese and U.S. sources, reported that the missiles were surface-to-ship. Japanese Defense and Foreign Ministry officials said they could not immediately confirm the reports.

According to words of unidentified South Korean intelligence official, reported by Yonhap news agency, North Korea's missile test Friday was part of a regular annual exercise.