Missile defense has long been a sticking point in U.S. arms control talks with Russia. Navy Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, which conducted Tuesday's test, called the result "an incredible accomplishment and critical milestone" for the program. He said...
In Tuesday's test, the latest version of an Aegis SM-3 missile was fired from a US Navy destroyer situated in the Pacific, northeast of Hawaii. Its target was a mock ICBM that had been launched from a US test range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The target missile was not...
The DDG-1001 ship was delivered to the US Navy in April 2018 and commissioned in January 2019. The ships are being installed with the CPS missile system and replace the original twin 155mm AGSs with four 87in missile tubes. Each tube can hold up to three Common Hypersonic Glide Bodies. D...
The Missile Defense Agency &@USNavysuccessfully conducted a SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile target yesterday!#MDA#ICBM#SailorsFind out more:https://t.co/JrdeQBdBzlpic.twitter.com/siAUnjROCV — US Strategic Command (@US_Stratcom)November 17, 2020 Previo...
The USS Jack H Lucas (DDG 125), a Flight III guided-missile destroyer, was commissioned in October 2023. Credit: HII. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers or DDG 51-class were developed for the US Navy to provide multi-mission offensive and defensive capabilities. ...
Raytheon, US Navy, test first SM-2 missile from restarted production lineRichard Scott, LondonIHS Jane's Missiles and Rockets
Navy has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile in a milestone test that demonstrated a potential scheme to defend Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday morning. The test, which comes on the heels of the revealing of...
Navy budget documents call for the purchase of Standard Missile variants to increase from its yearslong annual procurement rate of 125 missiles to 200 by FY26 and then 300 in FY28. The Navy previously awarded $200 million to specifically increase SM-6 production, and Ernzen said Raytheo...
The missile defense site that is in the process of being developed in Poland is a land-based component fitted with SM-3 missiles and their modifications.AegisAshore employs the equipment commonly used by the Navy in land-based facilities. The elements that are specific to warships are removed ...
The interim solution for MDA is to test and possibly field the Airborne Infrared system (ABIR), a UAS carrying the proper EO/IR sensors to support early intercept operations (a kill before a hostile missile reaches apogee), improved target discrimination and enhanced handling of the threat of ...