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

North Korea has once again tested its military strength by launching sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles. The ...

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

President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong ... week ordered the North’s first missile shots of Mr. Trump’s second presidency — the test-firing of what the South Korean command said were multiple ...

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

There are significant challenges to overcome if we are to deploy something similar to Israel’s acclaimed air defense network ...

The island is less than 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) from China (PRC) and 2,100 miles from North Korea ... hypersonic glide, and cruise missile threats.” That system would also rely on ...

North Korea on Monday criticized the Trump administration's plan to enhance missile defense for allied territories, vowing to ...

Trump is worried about far more severe threats, though, specifically ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles ... system is aimed at combating lower-level threats, like those posed by North ...

Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...

The name is a sly clue indicating his multi-faceted goal of deploying a "state of the art" missile defense covering the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

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 ...