RTX Corp. is still struggling to produce the US Navy’s top air-defense missile, needed to counter a Chinese weapon known as its “aircraft carrier killer,” the Pentagon’s contract management agency ...

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

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is enjoying a rosy outlook upon winning orders to build U.S. naval vessels at its shipyards ...

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

Bath Iron Works Corporation BIW) has begun fabrication on the irst Aegis Flight IIA variant of ... is the 29th of 57 ships in this class currently planned by the Navy. As lead yard for design ...

The USS Preble is the first U.S. Navy vessel equipped with HELIOS, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed ...

South Korea’s military has launched a naval task fleet command that operates Aegis destroyers equipped with a radar system ...

“These ships, just like the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, were purpose-built around the SPY-1 radar and the Aegis combat system. And now I am tasked with ripping out that legacy radar and ...

The smaller size means that a crew of only about 90 is required, about half the size of other destroyers and one-third the crew size of an Aegis-class warship. The switch to sleeker vessels was ...