The U.S. and Japan have successfully tested a new, more powerful SM-3 missile designed to intercept intermediate-range ballistic missiles from potential threats such as North Korea, officials said.

An SM-3 Block IIA missile test shot fired from an Aegis Ashore test site in Hawaii this week did not hit its target after a successful launch, Pentagon officials confirmed Thursday.

SM-3 IIA, in addition to bringing in the Japanese industrial base, the SM-3IIA program seeks to improve upon the SM-3 IB missile, which is already fielded at sea and in the first Aegis Ashore site ...

The SM-3 can be land- or sea-based, and uses its own kinetic energy, or "hit-to-kill," rather than explosive warheads. The Block IIA model is capable of engaging ballistic missiles as they begin ...

MDA said preliminary data shows the test met its objectives. The SM-3 and Standard Missile-6 are integrated and tested at Raytheon’s $75 million facility at Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal.

During Exercise Formidable Shield 2019, USS Roosevelt demonstrated its advanced air and missile defense capabilities with a live launch of the SM-3 missile. This powerful display highlights the ship’s ...

The Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missile that missed its target is made by Raytheon Corp. (NYSE: RTN) as part of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system and is the second failure in less than ...

The SM-3 IIA is a newer interceptor missile, larger and more capable than its SM-3 predecessors. It recently achieved its first successful intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target, MDA ...

This is quite significant, given that the SM-3 has thus far been primarily thought of as a defense against short, medium and long-range ballistic missile threats. For quite some time, the SM-3 has ...

The SM-3 is used to intercept short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles and destroy them through kinetic force. Originally a shipboard system of the U.S. Navy, it is now deployed on land as ...

See the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors intercept and destroy a threat-representative ICBM target with an SM-3 Block IIA missile. The United States this week successfully demonstrated ...

The new missile is a 21-inch variant of an earlier SM-3 missile and works with the U.S. Aegis combat system built by Lockheed Martin Corp to destroy incoming ballistic missile threats in space.