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

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

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

The US military also employs Patriot missile batteries, designed to make much lower-altitude intercepts, as the final phase of Guam’s defense. Both the THAAD and Patriot systems have been ...

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

Work done in the Reagan years has borne fruit in the design and development of THAAD and other currently deployed U.S. missile-defense systems. And much progress has been achieved in the years ...

All three – Aegis, THAAD and Patriot – will eventually form what is called the Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense System (EIAMD) on Guam, which the MDA says will provide “360-degree ...

As Secretary Hegseth takes the reins of the Pentagon, he said one of his priorities would be an effort to create an “iron dome” missile defense system to protect the United States, like the one ...

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