This video explores the cutting-edge technology behind exo-atmospheric missile intercepts, where kill vehicles collide with ...

A kill web is an evolution of a kill chain, including systems across domains and technologies. China has been expanding its missile arsenal and capabilities for years, raising concerns in the ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has identified the AIM-174B Gunslinger as a possible platform for hypersonic missile defense. In this scenario, it would use new ‘area effect’ warheads, a ...

The defense appropriation bill reversed some of those plans, providing additional funding for more SM-3 production. In May, the Pentagon awarded a substantial contract to RTX for dozens of SM-3 IBs.

After a delay of nearly two years, the Missile Defense Agency has declared a successful test of its Long-Range Discrimination Radar’s ability to track a live ballistic missile target.. In a June ...

In a first for a key element of the nation’s ballistic missile defense system, a long-range radar has acquired, tracked and reported missile target data, according to the Missile Defense Agency ...

Once a ballistic missile is fired into the air, a defender has only minutes to identify its precise trajectory and try to shoot it down. Even the world’s best defenses can’t always stop them.