Could the Army's newest program be Aegis Ashore?

By Jason Sherman / February 27, 2020 at 4:07 PM
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) appeared to throw the Navy's top officer a curveball this week when the lawmaker raised the prospect of the Army taking responsibility for any land-based variant of the Aegis ballistic missile system the Pentagon might acquire to bolster homeland defense against North Korean threats. "Has there been discussion of moving the Aegis Ashore from the Navy to the Army given that there's talk of expanding that capability?" Rogers asked during a Feb. 27 House Armed Services...

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