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

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

All three – Aegis, THAAD and Patriot – will eventually form what is called the Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense System (EIAMD ... different intercept points would be astronomical ...

President Trump's executive order for an "Iron Dome" missile defense shield of the U.S. brings attention to the gaps in homeland defense.

The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing political ripples, but with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) soliciting industry input on the concept, how would such a ...

The city's defense system deploys a sophisticated anti-missile defense mechanism to neutralize ... area set in correlation to the first time point (t=0). Credit: Nature (2024).

To that point, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly highlighted the ability of his newest weapons to evade existing missile-defense systems, suggesting that may have been a motivation.