The Missile Defense Agency issued Lockheed Martin a sole source contract worth up to $2.97 billion to upgrade the Aegis ...

The U.S. Navy is rapidly retiring its Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, a move that is creating a dilemma between ...

The Ticonderoga-class of cruisers are engineered for Aegis ballistic missile defense, which uses a mix of computer, missile and radar technology to fire a Standard Missile-3 to knock an ...

The DDG 51 class was named after the legendary Admiral Arleigh Burke, ... There are currently 74 U.S. Navy ships in service with the Aegis Weapons System installed: 22 Cruisers and 52 Destroyers.

A number of Ticonderoga-class cruisers were deployed during the Gulf crisis in 1991. Aegis-controlled Tomahawk missiles were deployed in 1993 against targets in Iraq for enforcing the “no fly ...

The Los Angeles–class nuclear-powered fast attack sub and the Aegis-class missile cruiser involved in the accident were being evaluated for the extent of the damage Sunday.

The U.S. Navy’s Aegis program was born as the solution to a physics problem: Given that hostile variable-geometry wing Soviet Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers travel at speeds approaching Mach 2 ...

The Aegis-class cruiser Lake Erie ("Courage, Determination, Peace" reads her shield) was pitching and rolling in heavy seas west of Hawaii on the night of February 20.

The U.S. Navy’s “Cruiser Modernization” program will extend the service life and enhance the combat capability of 22 of the Navy’s 27 multi-mission AEGIS cruisers (CG-52 through CG-73).

The Aegis Combat System is installed on the Navy's 62 Arleigh Burke class destroyers and another operational 22 Ticonderoga class cruisers. The system is made up of four large SPY-1D phased array ...