Historically, such funding has been relatively modest, but in recent years the Department of Defense ... low-altitude flight can indeed reduce their detection range by ground-based radar systems ...

Land-attack cruise missiles can be launched from the air, ground or sea, and because they fly at low altitudes under powered flight ... defense posture consists of the Ground-based Midcourse ...

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

The plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats, expanding the current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system ... in the boost phase of flight. The decision also came earlier ...

Challenging the Strategic Necessity of High-Speed Arms The United States has been exploring research and development of ...

Intercepting new hypersonic missiles with traditional missile defense systems is difficult due to their high speeds, irregular flight paths ... oversees the ground-based midcourse defense system.