Report: Russia Has Carried Out A Successful Test Flight Of A New Anti-Satellite Missile

A Russia's Proton rocket, carrying Kosmos military satellite blasts off a launch pad at the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on March 30, 2012. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Washington Free Beacon: Russia Flight Tests Anti-Satellite Missile

Moscow joins China in space warfare buildup.

Russia carried out the first successful flight test of a new anti-satellite missile this month, marking a new phase in the global militarization of space.

The flight test of Russia’s direct ascent anti-satellite missile, known as Nudol, took place Nov. 18, according to defense officials familiar with reports of the test.

It was the first successful test in three attempts, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

With the successful anti-satellite missile test, Russia has joined China in arming its forces with strategic space warfare weapons.

Twenty days earlier China conducted a flight test of its anti-satellite missile. The Dong Neng-3 direct ascent missile was tested on Oct. 30 in western China.

A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment on the Russian missile test.

WNU Editor: This is the first that I am hearing about this. No one else has picked up on the story, and even the Russian media is quiet.