We are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate.” Adm. James Kilby’s testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 24, 2025, was one of those moments of high-pitched tension for US ...

On Nov. 16, U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG 113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System-equipped destroyer, fired a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA ...

First Combat Use of SM-3 Missile Interceptor During Iranian Attack on Israel. The U.S. Navy in April deployed an SM-3 missile interceptor in combat for the first time.

The SM-6 Block IB, one of the U.S. Navy's future time sensitive strike weapons soon to be fielded, has been put on hold due ...

President Donald Trump proposed a revolutionary missile defense system to keep the United States safe, but is it even ...

Expenditure of SM-6 and THAAD air defense munitions in the Middle East is a grave concern amid China's vast missile threat. Stocks must be restored at speed.

Iran’s vast missile arsenal, dispersed across underground bunkers, urban areas and remote regions, will not vanish overnight, although Israel has significantly degraded it. Analysis.

And while the Missile Defense Agency attempted to end SM-3 Block IB production in its fiscal 2025 budget request in order to pursue new development priorities, including investments in the Block ...

The U.S. Navy used munitions at an "alarming rate" in the recent defense of Israel, Admiral James Kilby, Naval Operations ...

A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02 on Dec. 10, 2024, conducted by the Missile Defense ...

The cruiser Lake Erie fires an SM-3 Block 1B in 2013. (U.S. Navy) Raytheon is investing in its Standard Missile 3 lines to accelerate the production rate of the U.S. Navy weapon, as global ...