The US military wants to create space lasers capable of destroying enemy weapons from orbit as it strives to be the first nation to weaponise space.
President Donald Trump previously outlined plans for a Space Force and said he wants to develop space weapons before superpower rivals China and Russia.
Plans include missile-killing lasers and 'neutral beams' that bombard enemy projectiles with subatomic particles until they are rendered useless.
The project has been earmarked for a 2023 launch, if the US government grants funding for the project.
Officials laid out the ambitious plans in a $304million (£228million) request for funding from the government.
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The US military wants to build a space-based weapons as it strives to be the first nation to weaponise space. Donald Trump (pictured) has previously stated his hope for a US Space Force as part of the military's future
Defence One reports that the Pentagon is undertaking two studies which it hopes will establish its war-faring dominance.
One six-month study will explore the possibility of lasers in space that will be able to disable enemy missiles on the launchpad.
Another piece of research will investigate the feasibility of space-based neutral particle beams that are different to lasers.
They disrupt missiles with streams of subatomic particles travelling at immense speed but are marginally slower than photons used by lasers, which travel at the speed of light.
A project, called BEAR, for Beam Accelerator Aboard a Rocket, was completed in 1989 which saw a neutral particle beam make it into space as part of an experiment.
Technological advancements have seen the technology become cheaper an smaller and the US military may now revisit this field.
A senior defence official said: 'We've come a long way in terms of the technology we use today.
'We now believe we can get it down to a package that we can put on as part of a payload to be placed on orbit.
'Power generation, beam formation, the accelerometer that's required to get there and what it takes to neutralise that beam, that capability has been matured and there are technologies that we can use today to miniaturise.'
Previously revealed US space weapons include the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. This image shows The Air Force working on the reusable spacecraft after it landed at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2017
Officials reiterated that the studies do not mean a weapon will be deployed.
An official said at a press conference: 'I can't say that it is going to be at a space and weight requirement that's going to actually be feasible, but we're pushing forward with the prototyping and demo.
'The exploration means we need to understand as a Department, the costs and what it would take to go do that.
'There's a lot of folklore… that says it's either crazy expensive or that it's free. It needs to be a definitive study.'
WHAT IS THE MYSTERIOUS X-37B ORBITAL TEST VEHICLE?
The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has flown a number of secret missions to date.
Each time it has carried a mystery payload on long-duration flights in Earth orbit.
The spacecraft looks similar to Nasa's space shuttle but is much smaller. The X-37B is about 29ft (8.8m) long and 9.5ft (2.9 m) tall.
Like a shuttle, X-37B is blasted into orbit by a rocket. However, it lands using a runway like a normal aircraft. The X-37B is too small to carry people onboard, but does have a cargo bay similar to that of a pickup truck, which is just large enough to carry a small satellite
It has a wingspan of just less than 15ft (4.6 m). At launch, it weighs 11,000lbs (4,990kg).
The craft is taken into orbit on a rocket but lands like the space shuttle by gliding down to Earth.
Its main mission payload is a mystery, although Nasa has revealed it has a hauled a number of materials experiments aboard into space.
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