And the spectacular failure of the Pentagon's test of its high-speed missile interceptor in July left insurmountable doubts about the technology.
A report from South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing an unnamed senior government source, backed that up, saying Pyongyang appeared to have lifted its highest combat alert and moved the missiles, although their current location was not confirmed.
The roof of each was split down the middle, and when opened, a four-story-high missile, the Bomarc, rose to a vertical position for launch.
The military contractor Raytheon said Thursday that lower pension expenses and higher missile sales raised second-quarter income from continuing operations 20percentt.
From his post in a watchtower overlooking the border, Lt. Barak Twizer looks out at a vista of hostility through newly-reinforced hatches of stainless steel and a 40-foot-high "missile fence" of tightly meshed wire designed to stop stones, rocks, or, in the worst case, shoulder-fired rockets.
Last October Iran conducted its first high-profile missile tests since the adoption of the nuclear deal; a few weeks later, it aired footage of the speaker of parliament touring underground missile bunkers.
And a battery of six-foot-high missiles stood at the ready farther out in the desert to destroy vehicles that tried to rush in to help the insurgents.
It makes weapons, ranging from cheap submachineguns to high-tech missile parts.
In anticipation of the Olympics this summer, London may install a "high-velocity missile system" on top of some low-income housing.
Mr. Cohen's remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee were his first since the failure on July 8 of a high-speed missile interceptor to deploy properly.
