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

Ukraine developing strategic-level air defense system, foreign minister says Russia tries to land troops, break through ...

In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan proposed a similar space-based defense, but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology ...

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 ...

We also see in the Golden Dome an echo of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Reagan on 23 March ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology and cost challenges.

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks April 9 at the Space Symposium. Credit: Thomas Kimmell Photography Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...