Northrop Grumman’s Glide-Phase Interceptor is intended to focus on hypersonic threats, as President Trump is calling on the Pentagon to work on an architecture that focuses on all missile threats.
Credit: Northrop Grumman concept
President Donald Trump’s first major defense modernization initiative since returning to the White House evokes the height of the Cold War in the early 1980s. His plan calls for the creation of a massive missile defense system centered on the tenets of the Reagan administration’s “Star Wars”...
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