Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A notional rendering of a Glide Phase Interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic threats. (Courtesy of Northrop Grumman) The ...

The Pentagon is racing to build a missile defense system that can detect and destroy hypersonic weapons within the first minutes of flight, pushing both interceptor development and satellite tracking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a joint news conference with ...

A notional rendering of a Glide Phase Interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic threats. (Courtesy of Northrop Grumman) The Missile Defense Agency is facing a roughly three-year delay in its plan to ...

On November 1, Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced that it has signed a contract worth 56 billion yen ($368 million) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI), a ...

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman $540.9 million in funding to support the company’s development of the Glide Phase Interceptor, a technology to detect and intercept hypersonic ...

A notional rendering of a Glide Phase Interceptor capable of defeating hypersonic threats. (Courtesy of Northrop Grumman) The Missile Defense Agency has chosen Northrop Grumman to design an ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of ...

The Missile Defense Agency is facing a roughly three-year delay in its plan to deliver an interceptor capable of defeating a hypersonic weapon in the glide phase of flight, according to its director.