President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

The problems, both then and now, were that a comprehensive missile shield would be exorbitant in price, barely technically possible and impractical in reality as easily available ...

Space-based interceptors and "particle beams" are part of a new multi-billion-dollar Trump order to build a new U.S. missile ...

While the Iron Dome combats incoming rockets and artillery weapons, David’s Sling protects against short- and medium-range threats, and the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems stop ballistic missiles.

If the U.S. creates a missile defense system capable of shooting down incoming nuclear missiles, the Russians and Chinese would be compelled to make more nuclear weapons to counter this missile ...

The “Brilliant Pebbles” system envisaged thousands of small satellites in low-Earth orbit, each housing heat-seeking missiles to take out incoming Soviet nukes long before they released their ...

It would be an American version of the famed Israeli missile defense system. Incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted the order was coming when he walked into the Pentagon on Monday ...

Ukrainian air defenses fired 10 Patriot interceptor missiles, valued at $30 million, to shoot down six incoming Russian ...