These missiles are employed on AEGIS destroyers and cruisers in service with the US Navy. Over the decades, the SM-6 family has matured its design to incorporate new capabilities and functionalities ...

The United States has been attempting to develop a next-generation guided missile destroyer for over 30 years. Despite the ...

The United States has been attempting to develop a next-generation guided missile destroyer for over 30 years. Despite the ...

SM-6 unit cost is ~$4m-$8m. Presently, the JMSDF operates a total of eight Aegis-equipped destroyers. These include four Kongo-class destroyers, commissioned in the 1990s and upgraded with the ...

The smaller size means that a crew of only about 90 is required, about half the size of other destroyers and one-third the crew size of an Aegis-class warship. The switch to sleeker vessels was ...

China is building these ships fast while the US sunsets most of its aging cruisers. China's navy has ... array radar — a vital component of the AEGIS Combat System, an advanced and integrated ...

Lockheed Martin received funding for development and integration of the Aegis combat system solution to equip the Royal Canadian Navy's new River-class destroyers, shown here in a rendering.

Since 1978, the company has reportedly delivered RCS for 27 Aegis cruisers, 21 Aegis destroyers and six Taiwanese frigates. Tracor is reportedly one of the 15 largest defense electronics firms in ...

Like Reagan’s never-fulfilled plan for a system to “intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached ...

The program has been incredibly wasteful and poorly run, creating numerous learned for the Navy's destroyer modernization program. Cruisers, one of seven types of modern warships, are used for a ...

This objective was accomplished with a variety of guns, with the largest generally being five inches­—thus far smaller than the main guns of cruisers and battleships. Modern destroyers continue ...

Aegis cruisers are 567 ft. (173 m) long, with a beam of 55 ft. (17 m). Four gas turbine engines power the 9,500-ton ships to speeds in excess of 30 knots.