DefenceTalkSM-6 air defense interceptor proves surface-to-surface engagement capability PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii: Raytheon Company’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) successfully engaged a surface target — the decommissioned USS Reuben James (FFG 57) — in a recent flight test. The test was a demonstration of the U.S. Navy’s concept of “distributed lethality,” employing ships in dispersed formations […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-standard-missile-6-successfully-hits-surface-target-66956/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency, in conjunction with U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. European Command, and Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, successfully conducted the first intercept flight test today (December 9, Hawaii Standard Time) of a land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sm-3-completes-first-intercept-test-from-aegis-ashore-test-site-66051/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Navy, and sailors at the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex and Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), successfully conducted the first flight test involving components of the Aegis Ashore system. During the test, a simulated ballistic missile target was acquired, tracked, and engaged by the Aegis Weapon System. At […]https://www.defencetalk.com/standard-missile-completes-first-test-launch-from-aegis-ashore-test-site-59674/

DefenceTalkA Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3 Block IA fired from the USS Lake Erie destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using tracking data from a remote Raytheon sensor payload on the Space Tracking and Surveillance System-Demonstrator (STSS-D) satellites. “This test further expands our confidence in the SM-3’s ability to engage targets using remote, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/u-s-navy-uses-eyes-in-space-to-take-out-a-ballistic-missile-threat-target-46786/