In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

The US Navy’s HELIOS laser weapon, a cutting-edge directed energy system, has demonstrated its potential in recent tests, ...

The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean.

The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear-armed missiles is to negotiate their elimination—not pretend some magic ...

Late last year, the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG-88) conducted a test of its ...

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

TASS/. The newest Iron Dome missile defense system developed by the US envisages the deployment of interceptors in space equipped with lasers to destroy nuclear weapons, the Financial Times ...

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White ...

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

The destroyer Preble successfully test-fired its HELIOS system on a drone target, according to a recently released report.

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for reductions in atomic weapons arsenals across the great nuclear powers.