The Pentagon Wants Particle Beam Anti-Missile Weapons In Space In Four Years

A mockup of McDonnell-Douglas' space-based NPB. McDonnell-Douglas via Aerospace Projects Review

Defense One: Pentagon Wants to Test A Space-Based Weapon in 2023

Defense officials have asked for $304 million to fund research into space-based lasers, particle beams, and other new forms of missile defense next year.

Defense officials want to test a neutral particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They’ve asked for $304 million in the 2020 budget to develop such beams, more powerful lasers, and other new tech for next-generation missile defense. Such weapons are needed, they say, to counter new missiles from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. But just figuring out what might work is a difficult technical challenge.

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WNU Editor: The militarization of space continues.

The Pentagon Wants Particle Beam Anti-Missile Weapons In Space In Four Years

Budget Docs Show Pentagon Aims To Loft Particle Beam Anti-Missile Weapon Into Space In Four Years -- Warzone/Drive
US military wants $300M to start testing satellite-mounted lasers and ‘particle beams’ -- FOX News/The SUN
The Pentagon Wants to Test a Space-Based 'Particle Beam' by 2023 -- Popular Mechanics
The Pentagon Wants an Orbital Space Weapon to Blast Enemy Missiles -- Futurism

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