Translation of "Tir à courte portée " (French → English) :

I think we will see some compromises that do not have us in the forefront of the highest tech, short range, light payload tactical aircraft but that do preserve our dominance, our superiority in modern battlefield capabilities, surveillance and reconnaissance, precision strike and rapid mobility.

It of course assumes how effective this potential will be to a long-range launch relative to their location in launches against North America as distinct from defending European population and territory.

We know that India has between 60 and 200 nuclear warheads with short- and medium-range missiles, that those short-range missiles are installed on the Pakistani border and that Pakistan has missiles that were tested this year and nuclear warheads that were given or sold to it by China.

3. This Decision is without prejudice to the right of Member States to allow the use of the frequency bands under less restrictive conditions or for short-range devices which are not part of the harmonised category provided that this does not prevent or reduce the possibility for short-range devices of such a category to rely on the appropriate set of harmonised technical and operational conditions, as specified in the Annex to this Decision, which allow the shared use of a specific part of the spectrum on a non-exclusive basis and for different purposes by short range devices of the same category’.

Mr. Maskell: Even in terms of today's short-range capabilities or systems being developed into long-range, what typically happens is the countries that are developing missiles have a series of different classes of programs, so one program is focused on short-range, another program on long-range.

An interesting discussion: The Iron Dome system, David's Sling system, which Israel has deployed for defence against short-range rockets and artillery, could be very useful against some short-range systems.