The Defense Department will soon brief the president on possible options for a planned missile defense system that could cost ...

This concept revives the Reagan-era “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative. But while technology has advanced since the United States first attempted a space-based missile shield in the ...

The concept appears similar to the Smart Rocks proposal from the original Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s, which envisioned orbital battle stations carrying multiple interceptors.

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars, didn't come to fruition. The program was previously known as Iron Dome but was renamed by the Pentagon in February to Golden Dome and is ...

The proposal isn’t far off from Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which was designed to defend the U.S. from Soviet missiles but was never implemented. It’s known derisively as ...

The proposal isn’t far off from Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which was designed to defend the U.S. from Soviet missiles but was never implemented. It’s known derisively as ...