The U.S. military's Aegis Ashore missile defense site is finally set to go operational. Navy Rear Adm. Douglas Williams, the acting director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), laid out new details ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy, which took over the Aegis Ashore system in Poland after a five-year delay, immediately moved the system into an upgrade and maintenance effort. Nearly a year ago, then-MDA ...

The Aegis Ashore sites in Romania and Poland are land-based versions of the naval Aegis, each consisting of a powerful SPY-1 radar and twenty-four SM-3 interceptor rockets. Aegis Ashore is aimed at ...

Japan has formally ended its plans to procure two Aegis Ashore missile defense sites, citing concerns that the booster on the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA interceptor missile couldn’t be guaranteed to ...

The two Aegis Ashore systems were originally ordered because two of them can protect all of Japan. When one of the AA Ships is in port, Japan sends several of its Aegis destroyers to maintain the ABM ...

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Key point: The Pentagon hasn’t tested its missile defenses like it is supposed to. America’s missile defense umbrella is supposed to protect Europe from Iranian (and perhaps Russian) ballistic ...

An SM-3 (Block 1A) missile is launched from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Kirishima (DDG-174), successfully intercepting a ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific ...

The U.S. anti-missile station Aegis Ashore Romania can be seen at the military base in Deveselu, Romania, on May 12, 2016. Poland's Aegis Ashore site continues to be plagued by construction issues and ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Kauai, Hawaii, successfully conducted ...

The signs were there, but Tokyo’s decision last week to formally suspend deployment plans for two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense sites still came as something of a sudden development.

Members of the Japanese Diet visited the Aegis Ashore site in Romania in mid-2018. (MC1 Jeremy Starr/U.S. Navy) MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan has abruptly suspended the planned deployment of the Aegis ...