MOSCOW: Russia on Friday (Jan 31) condemned an executive order by US President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear ...

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an "Iron Dome for America", borrowing the name of Israel's vaunted missile defence system. "We need to immediately begin the ...

This new initiative expands upon decades of U.S. missile defense efforts, building on technologies from the Reagan-era ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the development of an "Iron Dome" defense system to shield the United States from an intercontinental missile attack.

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense ...

An executive order said the United States faced a “catastrophic threat” from advanced aerial weapons. But a defense system ...

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defence (GMD) system, widely regarded as the backbone of US missile defence, is designed to ...

Unlike other advanced weapons systems in America’s arsenal—especially unlike other hypersonic weapons—the Mako is relatively affordable.

Reports are growing of a weapon that could threaten even the most advanced enemy aircraft, with hypersonic speeds posing ...

The Nero-M is a multi-band radar detection system that Russia claims can detect the West’s stealth jets, so how does it do it ...