Trump's order establishing an Iron Dome for America includes a wider focus to defend the homeland from air and missile attacks from peer adversaries.

The plan also calls for using blimps for detection of complex threats, expanding the current Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, at Fort Greely, Alaska, and adding a brand new ...

The Army provides eight THAAD batteries to support combatant commanders; there are also 15 Patriot battalions and 44 Ground-Based Midcourse Defense interceptors based in California and Alaska.

with another four at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of its Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. Around 2028, the Pentagon is expected add 20 Next Generation Interceptors ...

This has left America’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system—the nation’s primary defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)—woefully inadequate. This led to the ...

The Boeing Company BA: It manufactures various missile defense systems, including the Ground-based Midcourse Defense, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Avenger. Boeing-built and supported air ...

China and Russia have both developed next-generation, highly-maneuverable hypersonic missiles that are very difficult to intercept—nearly impossible with the ground-based midcourse defense ...

Observers also point out that the US already has missile defence programmes in place, including the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ...

Currently, the United States' homeland missile defense posture consists of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System. The system, developed to counter intercontinental ballistic missile attacks ...