The US Navy has introduced the AIM-174B, an extremely long-range air-to-air missile, in the Indo-Pacific, aiming to counter China’s aerial dominance. This deployment is part of a broader ...

Suddenly and without much fanfare, the US Navy has deployed potentially the longest-range air-to-air missile in the world: the Raytheon AIM-174B, an air-launched version of the Standard Missile 6 ...

In the Navy, it would also replace or supplement the new AIM-174B, the air-launched variant of the SM-6. In most likelihood, its development started to counter the PLAAF’s advances in missile ...

The radar-guided SM-6, redesignated the AIM-174B for air-to-air use, is a massive missile weighing nearly a ton and ranging at least 220 miles – if not farther. And it “will massively change the ...