Need For 44 Ground-based Midcourse Interceptors Was Not Based On Sound Analysis, O'Reilly Says European Missile Defense Fiscal 2010 Budget Weak Because Legal Curbs Won't Permit Spending More Than $51 Million, General Tells Congress The U.S. missile defense program is proceeding with long-standing ...

North Korea is poised to detonate another of its nuclear weapons in a test, according to John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writing in The Wall Street Journal. North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon in an underground test in October 2006. And more recently, it launched a ...

Updated -- May 21, 2009 - 2 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: 7:17 a.m. EDT + Description: Space ...

By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the midst of Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) on the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) and the ship has undergone successful testing of its hull, and mechanical and electrical systems (HM&E), according to a Navy official. Additionally, combat system ...

European Missile Defense Still Alive, Perhaps With Russia As Partner: Gates Lawmakers: Missile Defense Cuts Unwise; Huge Weapons Cuts Challenged In Congress, But Gates Presses For Fiscal 2010 Budget Secretary of Defense Robert Gates encountered robust criticism of his plans to slash or eliminate ...

Uphill Fight Seen To Reverse Gates Missile Defense Cutbacks Attempting to use Navy ships with Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors to defend allied nations from Iranian missiles would be far more expensive than building the European Missile Defense (EMD) system, ...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has uttered multiple erroneous statements about the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) missile defense system that he wants to abolish, a noted military analyst said. Gates is provably wrong in many of his assertions about KEI, according to Daniel Goure of the ...

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will launch next week with three space travelers -- a Russian, a Japanese and a Canadian -- who will initiate the first six-person crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). That Soyuz will rise from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in an afternoon liftoff at ...

Updated -- May 15, 2009 - 11:40 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: 7:19 a.m. EDT + Description: ...

Missile defense systems can be useful in deterring aggression against the United States, especially aggression involving nuclear-tipped missiles, and thus should occupy a key position in the U.S. strategic posture, a commission stated. Missile defense systems, already developed to protect the ...