31.   The interceptor missile was supposed to destroy a dummy warhead in space, guided by ground-based radar and internal sensors.

32.   The interceptor successfully destroyed the dummy warhead in three of the previous five tests, including the most recent one in December.

33.   The missiles China fired Friday were thought to be carrying dummy warheads without explosives but with navigation equipment, the ministry said.

34.   The missiles were thought to be carrying dummy warheads with monitoring instruments to track their course, the Defense Ministry said.

35.   The Minuteman, shot out to sea from Vandenberg Air Force Base, has a dummy warhead and a decoy balloon.

36.   The missiles were thought to be carrying dummy warheads without explosives but with monitoring instruments to track their course, the Defense Ministry said.

37.   An intercontinental missile carrying a dummy warhead was launched over the Pacific Friday in a test of a US missile defense system, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.

38.   It has fired four missiles, according to the defence ministry, which confirms that three of the missiles carried dummy warheads.

39.   The defence ministry said they might be carrying dummy warheads.