Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. "Trey" Obering III turned over responsibility for missile defense operations to Army Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly, who became the eighth director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The shift in leadership was announced earlier this year. Deputy Secretary of ...
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By Dave Ahearn An Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) test by the Japanese destroyer Chokai (DDG-176) ended in failure when the Standard Missile-3 Block 1A interceptor lost track of the target missile in the final seconds before a planned hit-to-kill. The Chokai and its crew performed well ...
U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) ballistic missile shield that would ...
A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but an EMP attack on the homeland could be defeated with a missile defense system, a noted expert said. That could involve The ...
By Dave Ahearn The score was one hit, one miss, in an Aegis system ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the Pacific where the Navy for the first time ran the BMD test itself, without oversight by the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy's 3rd Fleet said. That 50-50 result comes as some Democrats in ...
The score was one hit, one miss, in an Aegis system ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the Pacific where the Navy for the first time ran the BMD test itself, without oversight by the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy Third Fleet announced. That 50-50 result comes as some Democrats in Congress ...
Japanese Self-Defense Forces are preparing for a test of their sea-based ballistic missile defense system in the week of Nov. 17, according to Kyodo News. The test at the Pacific Missile Range near Hawaii will involve a Japanese ship fitted with a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapons control ...
New North Korean Missile Launching Facility Taking Shape North Korea, which with great fanfare demolished a portion of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, now is threatening to rebuild the facility, claiming that other nations aren't living up to agreements. ...
Report Adds To Disputes Over Funding For Multiple Missile Defense Programs The Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system was praised as a useful asset ready to take on missile threats from rogue nations, but the system needs to be upgraded with more speed and clout, according to a joint report ...
Lockheed Martin's [LMT] new Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System came to life last month--on schedule and as planned--aboard the Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), the company reported. The Aegis open architecture configuration was installed aboard Bunker Hill as part of the ...