Amid escalating Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine, simmering tensions in the Middle East, and a Europe seeking to rearm in the face of an ever-more belligerent Kremlin, one piece of military kit in ...

Air defense power stems from a system's ability to find and take out a threat, putting mission effectiveness above ...

In a first-of-its-kind test, a Navy ship shot down a ballistic missile with a naval air-defense missile made by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems, the company and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency ...

An inside look at Russia’s S-500, its radar network and why Moscow believes it can challenge F-22 and F-35 stealth jets.

Key Points - The S-500 "Prometheus" is Russia's newest-generation surface-to-air missile system, designed to intercept a wide range of advanced threats, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, ...

Ballistic Missiles: A missile is a weapon that flies in the air independently by using a jet engine or a rocket. It is guided, so it has the ability to be pointed toward a definite target. There are ...

SM-3 Block IIA completed its first successful intercept flight test on Feb. 3, 2017 at the U.S. Navy™s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Launched from the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), ...

A Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas prepares for landing at the Benbeluca Airport in the Hebrides, Scotland, in preparation for Exercise At-Sea Demonstration ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 23, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has demonstrated its new Zombie Pathfinder short-range ballistic missile target at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico as ...

July 11, 2025: China now has ballistic missiles that can hit ships, especially aircraft carriers, at sea. The U.S. Navy has not been open about how it plans to defend its ships against Chinese ...