The US Navy has begun deploying its land-based Aegis missile defense system, Aegis Ashore, in Guam. Located in the middle of the Western Pacific Ocean, the US island territory of Guam is a ...

Raytheon claims in a federal lawsuit that the Missile Defense Agency acted in an “arbitrary and irrational” way when it chose ...

Defense Minister Taro Kono has halted deployment plans for the Aegis Ashore missile interception system, a national security project hampered by rising costs, safety concerns, research blunders ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on “Iron Dome for America,” a campaign promise for ...

TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...

While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific strategic capability against ...

During a meeting at the Pentagon with U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin, Japanese minister of defense Yasukazu Hamada registered concern about cooperation between Russia and China, as well as ...

Japan will spend billions of dollars to bolster missile defense to counter the growing threat from North Korea. On December 19th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved the installation of ...

On Tuesday, Japan’s government made a decision to expand the country’s missile defense shield with the US-made Aegis Ashore missile defense systems TOKYO, December 20. /TASS/. Japan’s plans ...

the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the first successful intercept of a ballistic missile target from the island using the Aegis Guam System, which fired a land-based interceptor of the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: No other existing air-defense system can claim the ... Here’s What You Need to Know: The Aegis Ashore system is a land-based variant of the extremely mature ...