Japan will take delivery of additional Standard Missile-3 Block IIA interceptors, according to the Pentagon.

has reached full-rate production of the latest Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) iteration, Block IIA. Now that manufacturing ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The SM-3 Block IIA Interceptor Missile was designed to intercept and destroy other missiles. Watch its first intercept test as another missile was launched from ...

The SM-3 Block IIA production milestone cleared the way for a $1.9 billion award from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in July 2024 to produce rounds for both the U.S. government and Japan Ministry ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has entered full-rate production for Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, validating the program's design maturity amid ...

The SM-3 Block IIA production milestone cleared the way for a $1.9 billion award from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in July 2024 to produce rounds for both the U.S. government and Japan Ministry ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has entered full-rate production for Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, validating the program's design maturity amid ...

Why the SM-3 is so expensive The SM-3 is an interceptor made by RTX and, for the newer Block IIA variant, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and it is an element of the Navy's highly advanced Aegis ...

MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Russia is concerned over reports about Washington’s plans to test the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missile against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), the Russian ...