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 ...

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. Navy’s missile defense mission in Poland is on the cusp of being added to a broader NATO effort to defend Europe from attack, marking a major step forward for an ...

Aegis Ashore is a four-storey deckhouse and launch tower, which will provide a static home in Romania and Poland for the SPY-1D(V) radar, SM-3 missiles, and other systems taken from the US Navy's BMD ...

THE PENTAGON — There is growing interest in Aegis Ashore installations on U.S. land and abroad, says U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring. Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the ...

MOORESTOWN, N.J. — To develop Aegis Ashore, a team of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and other contractors had to discern ways across the board to do in hours what it would take days ...

The US Navy is expected to accept the Aegis Ashore facility by the end of 2023. (US Navy) The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is expected to confirm the Aegis Ashore site in Poland “safe and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is leaning towards choosing the Aegis Ashore missile-defence system over another advanced system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD), government and ruling party ...

DEVESELU AIR BASE, Romania - Top U.S., Romanian and NATO officials broke ground Monday on a new ballistic missile defense facility being built to boost regional stability and strengthen the alliance's ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday announced the first live-fire test of a Raytheon Co SM-3 missile from the land-based version of Lockheed Martin Corp's Aegis ...