Israel’s laser defense could power Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield

Israel’s defense technology company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, known for developing the Iron Dome, has now created a ...

Israel to deploy first combat-ready laser weapon system for operational air defense

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems completes Iron Beam laser interceptor that destroys rockets and drones at a fraction of the ...
National Security Journal on MSN

The Navy’s New DDG(X) Destroyer Looks Like a Missile and Laser Machine

The U.S. Navy is developing the DDG(X), a next-generation guided-missile destroyer designed for future warfare, particularly ...
SpaceNews

Startup takes on space-based missile defense — with its own cash

WASHINGTON — Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, is investing its own capital to demonstrate it can build and deploy interceptors in space for Golden Dome, a planned missile ...

A look at the US military's unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters ...

Can we actually stop a nuclear missile? 'A House of Dynamite' has a shocking answer

Let's break down the real science behind Netflix's new movie "A House of Dynamite," which imagines a nuclear attack on the ...
The Atlantic

The Dawn of the Missile-Busting Laser

At 8:44 p.m. last night, the stuff of boyhood sci-fi daydreaming became reality. Using a high-powered laser weapon mounted to a 747 airliner, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully shot ...
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Weather Research and Missile Defense: Save for a Rainy Day

Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that the D-Day landings were won by having “better meteorologists than the Germans.” Sixty-four years on, that basic insight has not changed. Accurate space weather ...