The following is the May 15, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Hypersonic Missile Defense: Issues for ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for a “Golden Dome” to protect the United States from long-range missiles was at least ...

Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip in May 2023. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP) President Donald Trump’s executive order to develop a next ...

Trump's executive order calls for the Pentagon to come up with a design architecture, requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield within 60 days.

An idea for a space-based boost-phase defence system called Brilliant Pebbles was proposed towards the end of the 1980s.

A full scale mock-up of Raytheon's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor. (Raytheon) The U.S. Army has formally approved a new air and missile defense sensor to replace its aging Patriot for ...

In his executive order, Trump said he would “direct (the US) military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will be made all in the USA,” as the US faces a ...

President Trump has told the Pentagon to take another look at missile defense. Technology to shoot down missiles has existed for decades, but the kind of missile shield Trump is looking to build ...

The THAAD defense system is one of the US military’s most powerful anti-missile weapons, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at ranges of 150 to 200 kilometers (93 to 124 miles ...

Jonathan Panter is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Missile defense has reemerged as a topic of great international interest following Iran’s historic ...