In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully ...

The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded ...

Follow the Missile Defense Agency's efforts to deliver the U.S. Navy a capability to defuse hypersonic missile threats.

The commissioning of USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) opened a new era in surface warfare as the first Aegis ship outfitted with the Vertical Launching System (VLS), allowing greater missile selection ...

The United States may have the lead in anti-hypersonic missile capabilities, which could be as critical as developing the platforms. “Our Aegis Combat System successfully defended against a ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The THAAD, Patriot, and Aegis platforms are America's top missile-defense systems, using powerful radars, an advanced ...

The challenge was difficult because the operational Aegis-system sensors at that time needed augmentation by other target-tracking information to cue the missile interceptor — Standard Missile-3 ...

The defense chief told reporters on June 15 that for the time being efforts to maintain Japan’s missile defense system would be concentrated on the Maritime SDF’s Aegis destroyers carrying ...

The Defense Ministry is pushing the idea of deploying a missile-defense system on a floating platform that will use the radar and other equipment from the now-abandoned land-based Aegis Ashore ...