In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

The Iron Dome boosts U.S. missile defense with $19.5 billion for interceptors, Aegis Ashore installations, space sensors, and ...

The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear-armed missiles is to negotiate their elimination—not pretend some magic ...

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was launching a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as “Star Wars,” with the goal of rendering nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” ...

China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, which has signed a security treaty with Washington that comes with ...

In the vast expanse of the ocean, a streak of white light pierces the sky. It’s not a natural phenomenon, but a weapon — a ...

The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean.

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...

TASS/. The newest Iron Dome missile defense system developed by the US envisages the deployment of interceptors in space equipped with lasers to destroy nuclear weapons, the Financial Times ...

The system can destroy drones, watercraft and missiles by either melting or ... The United Kingdom has also been developing its own laser-based defense system. Last year, the U.K. successfully ...