Creating an Iron Dome for America would not just be a poor decision — it would be a monumental failure in defense policy.

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

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

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 ...

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Raytheon claims in a federal lawsuit that the Missile Defense Agency acted in an “arbitrary and irrational” way when it chose Northrop Grumman to advance development of the glide phase interceptor.

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

Now, 40 years on, President Trump has issued an executive order mandating the development and deployment of an American “next ...

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 ...