Some More News On The Navy's BMD Scramble

From In From The Cold: Last September, when President Obama announced plans for a revised missile defense shield for Western Europe, we pred...

U.S. Navy Needs More Ships With A BMD Platform

Navy Surface ships with ballistic missile defense capabilities — like the cruiser Shiloh, above, firing a Standard Missile-3 during a 2006 t...

Obama Missile Defense Plan Clears Hurdle

From Global Security Newswire: WASHINGTON -- Despite Republican denunciations of President Obama's decision to revamp plans for missile ...

The Growing Aegis Naval Fleet

AEGIS-BMD: CG-70 launches SM-3 Awesome Aegis Ascendant -- Strategy Page The U.S. government, encouraged by the high success rate (83 percent...

The Expansion Of The Aegis Program

Since 2005, Aegis has performed successful testing of sea-based intercepts; tracking multiple targets; intercept of targets where the warhea...

Concerns About The New Missile Defense Plan Are Now Being Raised

A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) during a joint U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U...

Technical Flaws In The Obama Missile Defense Plan

An SM-3 is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie as part of the Missile Defense Agency's latest Ballistic Missile Defense System...

The U.S. Navy Is Providing Strategic Air Defense In The Eastern Mediterranean

India's Sea Kings helicopters fly over USS. Higgins during the joint exercise between India and U.S. near the western Indian coastal sta...