Trump emphasised the importance of a new missile defense system, the ’Golden Dome’, to protect the U.S. He noted the need for ...

Continental defenses that can provide perfect—or even near-perfect—protection for the US homeland are not feasible. New ...

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza on Oct. 11, 2023. (Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images) In a bit of verbal alchemy, the Pentagon is turning iron into gold.

Then there is the cost: an Iron Dome actually modeled on Israel’s short-range missile defense system, scaled up to cover the 3.7 million square miles of the continental U.S. (the contiguous 48 ...

The U.S. already has a variety of lower-scale air defense systems — the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system serves as the primary missile defense system against intercontinental ballistic ...

As part of the Strategic Defence Review, military chiefs have been calling for an Iron Dome style missile defence system for ...

There is $1.5 billion included for PAC-2 and PAC-3 munitions ... States to use the system that Israel utilizes for its security. The U.S. and Israel jointly built the Iron Dome, which Israel ...

Israeli defense officials see an opportunity to strengthen their long-standing missile defense collaboration with the United ...

Donald Trump has made a renewed push for the much-hyped Golden Dome missile defense shield-an ambitious initiative that aims to protect the U.S. from next-generation threats. Initially branded as ...

For perspective, the U.S. territory spans an area of 3.8 million square miles ... that could power a patchwork of Iron Dome-like installations. The system has already been tested and deployed ...

The David’s Sling defense system was designed to counter the threat of medium to long-range rockets. Israel’s multilayered air defenses have been put to the test in recent yea ...