The test comes as the Trump administration is pushing for the deployment of a next-generation missile defense shield.

USS Pinckney spearheaded the test by using the SBT Increment 3 capability within Lockheed's Aegis Combat System.

The FTX-40 test, or “Stellar Banshee,” served as a validation for modern hypersonic missile tracking satellites, upgraded ...

Follow the Missile Defense Agency's efforts to deliver the U.S. Navy a capability to defuse hypersonic missile threats.

Launched from a land-based vertical launcher, the missile targeted a high-speed aerial threat at close range and low altitude ...