enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile...

    The motto in Latin: Custos Custodum Ipsorum means "Guard of the Guardians Themselves" in English. The Aegis ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), [1] also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United States Department of Defense developed to provide missile defense against short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

  3. Aegis Combat System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Combat_System

    Diagram of the Aegis Combat System (Baseline 2-6). The Aegis Combat System (ACS) implements advanced command and control (command and decision, or C&D, in Aegis parlance). It is composed of the Aegis Weapon System (AWS), the fast-reaction component of the Aegis Anti-Aircraft Warfare (AAW) capability, along with the Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS), and the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System

  4. Aegis system equipped vessels (ASEV) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_system_equipped...

    According to the Defense Buildup Program document, the JMSDF will increase the number of Aegis-equipped guided-missile destroyers (DDG) from the current 8 to 10 warships, as well as the introduction of two Aegis system-equipped vessels (ASEV) to be deployed in ballistic missile defense (BMD) operations.

  5. Lockheed Martin Wins $36M Deal to Aid Japan's Aegis System - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/lockheed-martin-wins-36m-deal...

    Lockheed Martin's (LMT) Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system is the primary sea-based component of the U.S. missile defense system.

  6. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer

    The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar. The class is named after Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II and later Chief of Naval Operations.

  7. Defense Contractors Crowing Over Aegis Ballistic Missile ...

    www.aol.com/2013/02/14/defense-contractors...

    Over the past few weeks, the Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin more than $74 million worth of contracts related to its work on the upgraded Aegis air defense system known as "Aegis ...

  8. Kongō-class destroyer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongō-class_destroyer

    In December 2007, Japan conducted a successful test of the SM-3 block IA against a ballistic missile aboard Kongō. This was the first time a Japanese ship was selected to launch the interceptor missile during a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. In previous tests, they provided tracking and communications.

  9. Lockheed Martin Wins Deal to Support Aegis Weapon System - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/lockheed-martin-wins-deal...

    Lockheed Martin (LMT) is developing an Aegis Baseline 9.C2 (BMD 5.1) variant computer program, referred to as J7, for the deployment on Japan's Aegis destroyers.