#Long range missiles

The UK is urgently moving to fill what officials describe as a dangerous gap in its ability to strike distant targets from the ground, launching a new wave of long-range missile programs with NATO partners to counter Russia’s expanding capability to hit Europe from thousands of miles away.

The Pentagon has quietly taken a major step toward building the first American space-based interceptors—weapons designed to strike enemy ballistic missiles in the opening seconds after launch, while they’re still clawing upward through the atmosphere and unable to maneuver.