The US Navy has begun deploying its land-based Aegis missile defense system, Aegis Ashore, in Guam. Located in the middle of the Western Pacific Ocean, the US island territory of Guam is a ...

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 ...

Defense Minister Taro Kono has halted deployment plans for the Aegis Ashore missile interception system, a national security project hampered by rising costs, safety concerns, research blunders ...

July 18, 2008: Israel has been so impressed by the U.S. Navy's Aegis anti-missile system, that it wants to buy and install one to help defend Israel from Iranian and Syrian missiles. So far, the Aegis ...

U.S. defense company Raytheon is lobbying Japanese lawmakers to replace Lockheed Martin Corp. as the supplier of powerful radars as Tokyo reconsiders plans for two Aegis Ashore missile defense ...

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NAVAL SUPPORT FACILITY REDZIKOWO, Poland — More than a hundred sailors assigned to this rural outpost in the Polish countryside help protect Europe against ballistic missile threats much the ...

Japan will spend billions of dollars to bolster missile defense to counter the growing threat from North Korea. On December 19th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved the installation of ...

HONOLULU — The U.S. military’s land-based Aegis missile defense system has intercepted an intermediate range ballistic missile in a test near Hawaii. Defense contractor Raytheon says the ...

TOKYO, June 25. /TASS/. Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono announced on Thursday that the country’s authorities had made the decision to annul the plan of deploying US-made Aegis Ashore missile ...

Japan’s picked a new $1.2 billion radar for its two ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense sites. The price for two Aegis Ashore batteries could exceed $5.4 billion -- over twice the ...