At first, the Pentagon is concentrating on simple homing rockets, to be followed by more exotic weapons like lasers.

A Homing Rocket The weapon at issue is a homing rocket meant to destroy targets by smashing into them.

The Recon Dropship's weapons include a missile launcher, twin laser cannons, and two homing rockets.

Space-based interceptors would be swarms of tiny homing rockets, which have undergone no realistic test in the Brilliant Pebbles program.

A homing rocket meant to be launched by an F-15 jet fighter, the weapon was said to have a range of about 400 miles.

A Russian invention, the rocket mine is a bottom distance mine that fires a homing high-speed rocket (not torpedo) upwards towards the target.

Instead, it was to rely on small homing rockets launched from the ground and from space-based battle stations using, for the most part, existing technology.

In particular, it said military astronauts could act as "repairmen" for kinetic-energy weapons, small homing rockets meant to destroy targets by smashing into them.

Powers include flight, a 4-tube missile launcher on each shoulder, three homing rockets on each hip plate,and a radiation gun on the right arm.

Washington's only recent anti-satellite weapon program, a homing rocket launched by an F-15 jet fighter, was canceled last year after Congress put stringent limits on its testing.