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Trump’s $19.5B Iron Dome plan: Next-gen interceptors, Aegis, THAAD, space tech, lasers
The IRON DOME Act comes at a time when geopolitical tensions have escalated, particularly with the advancements in missile ...
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Trump’s ‘Iron Dome for America’ plan would put weapons in space, at a big cost
The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...
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Behind Trump’s “Iron Dome” Is a Space-Based Missile Defense
Space-based missile defenses are the Holy Grail of American national defense. President Donald J. Trump wants to build an Iron Dome missile defense system for the entire United States. That’s what the ...
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Trump’s Orbital Missile Shield Could Aid His Nuclear Disarmament Foray
The White House’s new blueprints to construct the world’s first space-based missile defense shield could become part of a greater master plan to push for reductions in the atomic weapons ...
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Defense Analyst Challenges Space-Based Interceptor Feasibility
“The space-based part of this [concept], I think it is not that useful or helpful in the end,” Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American... Defense Analyst Challenges Space-Based ...
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Japan’s Do-or-Die Space Defense Program: Commercial Technology to Play Key Role in New Architecture
Japan’s fledgling space defense sector is taking its cues from the US Space Development Agency, which is pursuing a novel concept based on constellations of small satellites and maximum use of ...