The Conversation U.S. asked Iain Boyd, an aerospace engineer and director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder, about the Golden Dome plan and the ...

Nuclear powers could face a race to develop new hypersonic delivery systems ...

While the Minuteman III missile is capable of carrying up to three nuclear warheads, it is currently equipped with only one. The U.S. ICBM fleet occasionally conducts test launches involving multiple ...

The missile is powered by a fully Indian-developed scramjet engine. It is built to maintain hypersonic speeds with key ...

Orbiting in space, American satellites detect the bright flames. While the missile is still in its “boost” phase, one of a ...

Russia has been a leader in hypersonic weapons development since 2020, when the ultra-fast and maneuverable missiles became ...

Such a defence programme is 'long overdue' and 'absolutely necessary' amid growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia, experts have warned.

Trump has proposed an initial $25 billion to launch the project. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that just the ...

The United States has unveiled a massive missile defence initiative known as the Golden Dome, a first-of-its-kind space-based ...

US President Trump has launched a space-based missile defence plan called the Golden Dome, promising protection against threats ’even from space’. With multi-layered interceptors and orbital lasers, ...

The Golden Dome would involve space-based interceptors, which Congress estimated would cost between $162 billion to $542 ...