February 20, 2024: The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency are developing and testing systems that can identify decoys accompanying an incoming ballistic missile, then ignore the decoys and ...
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 ...
One of America’s prized Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries fired an interceptor in combat for the first time Thursday. The system, forward-deployed in Israel, was employed against ...
Moreover, the VLS is also used in the Aegis Ashore system, although it is not capable of tilting like the one in Guam. The US Missile Defense Agency successfully intercepted an air-launched ...