The IRON DOME Act comes at a time when geopolitical tensions have escalated, particularly with the advancements in missile ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

The former head of the Missile Defense Agency who two decades ago oversaw the launch of the current system that provides limited national missile defense against North Korean and Iranian threats says ...

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

The initiative mandates a multi-layered defense approach, tackling everything from cruise missiles to hypersonic threats. A ...

Defense Analyst Challenges Space-Based Interceptor Feasibility is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ...

Protecting the U.S. would require novel solutions, like orbiting missile interceptors that can destroy incoming attacks.

Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...

The US is much further on these technologies today than it was in the 1980s. A space-based interceptor is essentially an orbital missile launcher with the speed and range to strike an ICBM outside ...