A missile being launched from a Aegis cruiser during a joint Missile Defense Agency-U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test. The San Antonio-class of amphibious ships could be outfitted with ...

The Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD ...

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin will test this spring whether it can successfully integrate the U.S. Army’s latest and most capable variant of the Patriot missile with the U.S. Navy’s Aegis Combat System ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- An interceptor missile launched by a Navy Aegis destroyer for the first time used data from a remote radar to help it track and hit an intermediate range ballistic missile ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Lockheed Martin is looking to significantly cut the time it takes to modernize U.S. Navy ships for the most recent Aegis Combat System-related updates, says Jim Sheridan, the director ...

DRS Technologies Inc. has won a Navy voice communications contract worth $13.8 million. Under the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, the company will furnish new integrated voice ...

TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan's new Aegis missile-defence ships are expected to cost at least 900 billion yen ($8.27 billion), more than double the cost of two planned ground-based sites that the ...

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has begun construction of the final ship of the 'Next-Generation Aegis Destroyer (Jeongjo the Great-class·Gwanggaeto-III Batch-II),' which will be a core force of the ...

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt championed a simple truth. An all premium fleet is unaffordable, and an all bargain fleet cannot win wars. His answer was a mix. A few high end ships carry the most advanced ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --Japan is pushing ahead with plans to build two new Aegis ships, after canceling the deployment of a land-based U.S. Aegis Ashore missile defense system. Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo ...