SM-3 Block IIA completed its first successful intercept flight test on Feb. 3, 2017 at the U.S. Navy™s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Launched from the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), ...

JS Maya , seen here firing the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor against a ballistic target in waters near Hawaii on 16 November 2022. (JMSDF) The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has demonstrated ...

The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency successfully completed the first intercept flight test of a longer-range ballistic missile interceptor made by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems. In a test ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan on Tuesday conducted a second successful test of Raytheon Co's new Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile that is being jointly developed by the ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan announced on Sunday the first live-fire test of Raytheon Co's new Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile that is being jointly developed by the ...

Raytheon is preparing to submit a bid to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to build the first batch of SM-3 Block IIA ballistic missile interceptors while gearing up for the first flight test next ...

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 interest in ...

OFF THE COAST OF KAUAI, Hawaii, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During a demonstration here, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully intercepted short and medium-range ballistic missile targets ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has entered full-rate production for Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, validating the program's design maturity amid ...

The SM-3 IIA can hit bigger targets, such as incoming enemy ballistic missiles, at longer distances than previous SM-3 interceptor missiles. The Missile Defense Agency and Raytheon have configured the ...