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Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.

May 16, 2013: A Standard Missile 3 Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS LAKE ERIE during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific. The Navy successfully tested its short range ballistic missile last week, destroying a complex moving target that soared over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, May 15.

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Last Wednesday, off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, the Navy cruiser USS Lake Erie conducted a successful test of the next-generation missile defense weapon, engaging and destroying a dummy target warhead that had separated from a short-range attacking rocket.

The production line of the new system, Herz 9, will be inaugurated in a special ceremony attended by the country's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi tomorrow.

Russia is engaged in a major buildup of both nuclear and conventional missile defense systems at the same time Moscow is seeking legal limits on U.S. missile defenses, according to U.S. officials.

When the United States, Germany and the Netherlands deployed missile defenses to Turkey to augment the Turkish military's capabilities near the Syrian border, it wasn't happenstance that they were able to quickly coordinate their efforts and go operational.

The Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie conducted a successful flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system yesterday, Pentagon officials reported.

A fire was fought this morning at a Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale. The fire was reported around 3 a.m. in a building where missile defense systems are reportedly researched.

Riddled with fraud and abuse, it's no surprise that the Pentagon has not successfully passed an audit since 1996, according to the Government Accountability Office.

North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile, and the Defense Department believes that the nation may soon be capable of building a nuclear-armed missile.

When President Obama abandoned the Bush administration 's negotiated missile and radar deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic , he doubled down on what has become known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach - a series of missile defense deployment strategies staggered over the next decade throughout the European continent designed to adapt ... (more)

President Putin's office is composing an answer to US President Obama's letter on missile defense, nuclear disarmament and transparent interaction.

After emergency meeting at Black Sea resort, no word from either head of state about Russia's sale of sophisticated S-300 missiles to Assad Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 14, ... (more)

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff during his recent junkets to south Korea and Japan cried out for "building an integrated missile defence system" involving Washington, Tokyo and Seoul.

The Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency has made some recent progress gaining important knowledge for its Ballistic Missile Defense System by successfully conducting several important tests.

The United States has made significant progress over the last 40 years in reducing the amount of nuclear warheads deployed both here and in Russia, a nuclear arms negotiator told a gathering at the Saint Anselm Institute for Politics and Library Monday.

Finally, the moment of truth is at hand. After months of preparation and calculations, after checking and rechecking miles of wiring, thousands of screws and hundreds of computer algorithms, it's launch time.

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have successfully tested a prototype air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona .