Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (for example, anti-satellite weapons), attack...

Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes. Although no ASAT system...

A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of travelling at hypersonic speed, defined as between 5 and 25 times the speed of sound or about 1 to 5 miles per...

attempt to regulate conflicts in space and limit the installation of space weapon systems, especially nuclear weapons. On October 31, 2023, during a Yemeni...

through outer space during their flight. As of 2018[update], known deployments of weapons stationed in space include only the Almaz space-station armament...

A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military...

A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill. Weapons are used to increase...

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves...

The BFG ("Big Fucking Gun") is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in id Software-developed series' such as Doom and Quake.[citation needed]...

a Soviet-era satellite armed with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse space-based weapon, codenamed "GoldenEye". Although Janus is suspected of initiating...

space for military purposes. On 17 October 1963, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution prohibiting the introduction of weapons of...

Brood-infected Space Sharks, and a Brood-infected human named Blake riding an Acanti, to attack Weapon H. With the Brood slain and the Acanti knocked out, Weapon H...

experimentally on the Salyut 3 space station. A modified version of the weapon was the only cannon to have been fired in space. Cased telescoped ammunition...

version of Boeing X-51 or Advanced Hypersonic Weapon a kinetic weapon launched from an orbiting space platform In 2010, the United States Air Force prototyped...

Michael; Shipbaugh, Calvin (2002). "Kinds and Capabilities of Space Weapons". Space Weapons Earth Wars. RAND Corporation. pp. 23–50. ISBN 9780833029379...

the Weaponization of Space is a documentary film by Denis Delestrac with a music score by Amon Tobin. The film deals with the issue of space weapons and...

Weapon Plus is a fictional clandestine program appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It was created by Grant Morrison during their...

starships apart. Quantum torpedoes first appear in the Deep Space Nine episode "Defiant" as a weapon aboard the USS Defiant. In the DS9 episode "Paradise Lost"...

satellites have been proposed as potential space weapon platforms. These satellites could carry an arsenal of weapons, such as to threaten other countries with...

challengers. Countries that fall behind in space weapon advancement may turn to using chemical or biological weapons. This may heighten the risk of escalation...

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...

thriller film The Weapon (2023 film), an American action thriller film The Weapon (game), a play-by-mail game of space-based combat "The Weapon", a song by...

LAWs are also known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), autonomous weapon systems (AWS), robotic weapons or killer robots. LAWs may operate in the...

Missile A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor. Historically...

Defense to oversee development. Advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle-beam weapons, and ground and space-based missile systems were studied,...

Western governments to view this activity as an attempt to create a weapon in space and that such an attempt would contradict the country's previous statements...

the Earth. Directed-energy weapon Laser weapon Space weapon Kinetic bombardment Prompt Global Strike Aviation Week and Space Technology, January 29, 1962...

atomic and/or molecular structure. A particle-beam weapon is a type of space-based directed-energy weapon, which directs focused energy toward a target using...

A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people...