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.

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 ...

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 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.