The U.S. Navy has awarded a $68.4 million contract to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to supply interferometric fiber optic gyros (IFOGs) and related ...

An unarmed Trident II D5 Life Extension missile launches from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the coast of Florida during a planned test event from Sept. 17-21. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

The Trident II D5LE has an unclassified range of over 7,500 miles and can reach speeds of up to Mach 24. Last week, a Navy ballistic missile submarine tested the US military’s nuclear deterrence ...

America’s Trident D5 missiles represent a bedrock of America’s national defense—meaning that they must occasionally be tested. The Trident II D5 missile, officially designated the UGM-133A, was ...

The US Navy has launched multiple Trident II D5 ballistic missiles off the coast of Florida and into the Atlantic in the latest test of a system that can deliver thermonuclear warheads thousands of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A bright light with a glowing tail spotted in the Central California sky on Tuesday was a Navy missile test that had been in the works for years. U.S. Navy spokesman John Daniels told ...

The launch from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Space Force Base was part of routine testing of ICBMs randomly selected ...

The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile will take flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

For decades, the United States Navy's Ohio-class nuclear submarines were the best unused weapons in the U.S. arsenal. This is because the Ohio-class was designed for one purpose: to deliver its ...