The US military said Tuesday it had intercepted a mock-up of an intercontinental ballistic missile in a first-of-its-kind test that comes amid concerns over North Koreas weapons program. A ...

Switching from the Minuteman III to the Sentinel system, led by Northrop Grumman, involves the replacement of more than 600 ...

While US nuclear strategy relies primarily on the deterrence afforded through the nuclear triad, the GMD serves as an insurance policy against small-scale attacks or accidental launches. The ...

For more than two decades, homeland missile defense has relied on an interceptor architecture originally fielded in the early 2000s. That system was designed to counter limited intercontinental ...

There are many types of missiles that have been developed over the years, and technically, they are all ballistic. Ballistics deals with how an object moves through the air, and there are three areas: ...