{"id":40540,"date":"2019-08-19T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40540"},"modified":"2019-08-19T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:24:07","slug":"after-inf-treaty-exit-us-tests-ground-launched-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40540","title":{"rendered":"After INF treaty exit, US tests ground-launched cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88.9837153197\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The US Pentagon said on Monday that it had tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/08\/inf-treaty-withdraws-arms-control-agreement-russia-190801200731655.html\">pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty<\/a> (INF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Trump administration formally withdrew the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> from the landmark 1987 pact with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> on August 2 after determining that Moscow was violating the treaty, an accusation the Kremlin has denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The treaty, which was negotiated by then-US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned land-based missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310 to 3,400 miles).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Pentagon said the test took place on Sunday at San Nicolas Island, California, and the missile hit its target after more than 500km of flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Data collected and lessons learned from this test will inform the Department of Defense&#8217;s development of future intermediate-range capabilities,&#8221; the Pentagon said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The test would have been prohibited by the INF treaty, had the United States had not left it.<\/p>\n<p>US officials had said for a number of months that they planned to carry out the test in August. The US plans to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile in November.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow denies flouting the accord and has accused Washington of breaking the pact itself, allegations rejected by the US.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute is aggravating the worst US-Russia friction since the Cold War ended in 1991. Some experts believe the treaty&#8217;s collapse could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/mistake-fears-arms-race-russia-suspend-inf-pact-190203152747235.html\">undermine other arms control agreements<\/a> and speed an erosion of the global system designed to block the spread of nuclear arms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Pentagon said on Monday that it had tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the United States pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The Trump administration formally withdrew the US from the landmark 1987 pact&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}