The Navy is modernizing its destroyers and cruisers with Aegis technology equipped with new multi-mission signal processors, kill assessment systems, radio frequency upgrades and various on-board ...

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 ...

PICTURED: The guided missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) approaches the port side of the guided missile frigate USS Ingraham (FFG 61) during a leap frog training exercise. The exercise allows ship ...

One of the most sophisticated weapons systems in the world, the Aegis radar on some American cruisers and destroyers gives commanders an unprecedented view of all the activity raging on the ...

The Marines completed a proof-of-concept test in which a Marine Corps F-35B detected a cruise-missile decoy (a drone), passed targeting information to a remote sensor, and set up a shot by an Aegis ...

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 US Navy is to operationally deploy the Insitu Scan Eagle unmanned air vehicle aboard its Aegis-class cruisers and is looking at also fielding the system aboard FFG7 class frigates. The initial ...

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is being awarded a sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency. The total ...

The United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps have successfully tested the Lockheed Martin F-35B Joint Strike Fighter with the Naval Integrated Fire Control—Counter Air (NIFC-CA) battle ...

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." At around 0300, on Sunday, 22 December, the Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) shot down an F/A-18F preparing to land on USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) while ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Pentagon said late Saturday that it is investigating why a Navy submarine named after Vermont’s capital collided with an Aegis cruiser off the East Coast. The U.S. Fleet Forces ...

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 ...