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September 6, 2018

US fast-tracking hypersonic weapons and will deploy space-based defenses

Next Big Future: Hypersonic weapons are weapons and vehicles that can move faster than 5 times the speed of sound.

August 17, 2018

US targets a megawatt laser by 2023 and then deployment in drones and satellites for hypersonic and ICBM defense

Next Big Future: The US Congress wants the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to rapidly develop and demonstrate a boost-phase ICBM

August 15, 2018

Space-based laser weapons could ultimately take out missile threats in boost phase

Defense News: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Pentagon is eyeing space-based laser weapons technology as the ultimate solution to defeat a

April 13, 2018

U.S. Has a New Plan To Fight North Korea: Shoot Down Kim Jong Un’s Missiles as They Launch, but can it Work?

Newsweek: Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told Congress Thursday that the U.S. military is developing the technology to shoot down

January 19, 2018

Griffin interested in airborne missile defense

Defense News: WASHINGTON – The man poised to become the first ever undersecretary of defense for research and engineering supports

December 14, 2017

Missile Defense Agency Looking to Intercept Ballistic Targets Earlier During Boost Phase

USNI News: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Taking out incoming missiles during the boost phase – the period just after launch –

December 11, 2017

Breakthrough Combat lasers for F15 jets and antimissile drones

Next Big Future: For the last few years there have been heavy 10-30 kilowatt combat lasers tested on a Navy

November 17, 2017

Downing North Korea Missiles is Hard. The US is Experimenting.

The New York Times: WASHINGTON – Concerned that the missile defense system designed to protect American cities is insufficient by