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President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars, promised to create a missile defense system so effective it would eliminate the threat of nuclear war forever, at a cost of around $70 billion.
President Donald Trump’s missile defense system aims to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack, but it may destabilize global security and cost over $1 trillion.
The Pentagon is not pleased with how its missile defense systems are portrayed in A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s chilling new nuclear thriller now streaming on Netflix.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, is more accurate on this point than the Defense Department itself.
Manila stood up its first Army unit dedicated to operating surface-to-surface missiles last week in an effort to strengthen Philippine forces’ long-range precision strike capabilities and contribute to the country’s territorial defense operations.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Monday that it awarded Raytheon Co. a $5.04 billion contract for the Coyote Missile System, including fixed and mobile launchers, kinetic and nonkinetic interceptors, and Ku-band radio frequency radar systems.
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'House of Dynamite' Accurately Depicts America's Faulty Missile Defense System, Expert Says
The Pentagon has called BS on Netflix's "A House of Dynamite," saying its depiction of America's capability to strike down a nuclear attack is wildly inaccurate ... but a national security expert is raising red flags.
Simple rockets, artillery shells, swarming drones, low-cost projectiles, and complex missile volleys now appear in combinations that are beyond standard air defense. Two air-defense systems developed in Israel address this shift and form part of the same layered protection toolkit.
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The UK’s Makeshift “Raven” Air Defense System Is Killing Russian Missiles
The Raven system shows how Ukraine’s backers have moved away from purely conventional, big-ticket, high-end systems to more adaptable and agile improvisational ones.
WASHINGTON — Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, is investing its own capital to demonstrate it can build and deploy interceptors in space for Golden Dome, a planned missile defense system directed by President Trump.
A new type of vehicle-mounted air defense missile system is seen deployed in a live-fire shooting training by a company under a brigade affiliated with the 72nd Group Army of the