Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 weapons supplier, said on Tuesday its customers want to defend themselves against possible incoming missile attacks and are increasingly asking about missile defense systems. The greater interest comes amid a surge of North Korean long-range missile tests, unsettling ...
Japan can send China a wake-up call on North Korea by hosting a series of THAAD missile defense system.
The U.S. military is preparing to conduct another test of a missile-intercept system in Alaska, the Pentagon said Monday, amid continued tensions with North Korea over its ballistic missile program. Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said a routine test of the Terminal High Altitude ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed concern that the disputed islands controlled by Moscow but claimed by Tokyo could be armed by the U.S. military if they are returned to Japan. Putin also said in an interview with Kyodo News and other media outlets ...
ashington A controversial missile defense system whose deployment has angered China is now operational in South Korea, the U.S. military said Monday. Washington and Seoul agreed to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery deployment in July in the wake of a string of North ...
The government decides to speed up a feasibility study on adopting the land-based Aegis Ashore missile interceptor system to beef up its defenses.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Damascus is negotiating with regime ally Moscow to buy the latest Russian anti-missile system to repel Israeli and American attacks. "It's natural that we should have such systems," he said, quoted by Syria's official SANA agency on Thursday, the same ...
Japan, South Korea and the U.S. have conducted the first joint anti-submarine warfare (ASW) drills involving the three countries amid North Korea's growing submarine-launched ballistic missile threat. The three-day drill, which kicked off Monday, was being held in the waters between Japan and South Korea ...
The United States should invest more in missile defense given missile testing by North Korea and Iran, the chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said on Monday. The comments by Republican Representative Mac Thornberry followed new U.S. sanctions against Iran after Tehran's ...
The United States made its biggest pledge of military aid in history on Wednesday, promising Israel $38 billion over 10 years to buy advanced planes and weaponry and boost its missile defense shield. Israel's acting national security advisor Jacob Nagel and U.S. Undersecretary of State ...
China and Russia should welcome Seoul's plan to deploy an advanced missile-defense system because it alleviates the need for South Korea or Japan to pursue other defense options, which could include the development of nuclear weapons.
Japan has canceled an order issued in March to the Self-Defense Forces to intercept incoming North Korean missiles, government sources said. In response, the SDF began pulling out interceptors, including the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air guided interceptors deployed on the premises of the Defense Ministry ...
