BEIJING/TAIPEI--China publicly acknowledged for the first time that it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, in a move likely to raise ...

This test is crucial in validating the motor’s design, moving the program closer to production and deployment.

According to an Air Force news release, a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, stage-one solid-propellant rocket motor was ...

Credit: R. Nial Bradshaw/U.S. Air Force. Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force have conducted a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile’s (ICBM) ...

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman have conducted a demonstration of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, stage-one solid rocket motor on Thursday at the company’s ...

On Thursday, Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne Lamar will assume command of a group modernizing the testing and evaluation ...

The U.S. Air Force said that the service and Northrop Grumman conducted “a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ...

North Korea can probably hit the continental United States with its new Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). However, the commander overseeing the United States’ Joint-Global Strike ...

ICBM test launches are scheduled three times ... concrete near the portal through which the missile would emerge. The first visitors to the scene after launch would be firefighters to extinguish ...

"What that system allows us to do is to say that use of an ICBM would not result in the benefit ... remains alive even after a country sustains a first nuclear strike from an enemy.