Creating an Iron Dome for America would not just be a poor decision — it would be a monumental failure in defense policy.

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to forge ahead with an American version of Israel's famed Iron Dome air ...

Hundreds of people have been killed since the surprise assault. How the Iron Dome works Iron Dome, developed by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, uses radar, advanced tracking technology and ...

President Trump signed an executive order to build an "Iron Dome for America," modeled on Israel’s missile defense system.

An executive order said the United States faced a “catastrophic threat” from advanced aerial weapons. But a defense system ...

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

typified by its signature Iron Dome system. A defensive dome for the US – a country hundreds of times the size of Israel – would require massive scale, as well as space-based interceptors, and almost ...

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an “Iron Dome for America”, borrowing the name of Israel’s vaunted missile defence system. “We need to immediately begin ...

Yet on the piece of US soil perhaps most vulnerable to missile attacks – the Pacific island of Guam – work is well underway ... often lumped under the “Iron Dome” moniker, after its ...

It’s doubtful that anyone wants to experience a nuclear crisis in today’s fraught world. There are also reasons to doubt that an Iron Dome for America would even work. Defense contractors and ...

There are also reasons to doubt that an Iron Dome for America would even work. Defense contractors and government officials say that missile defenses have a good interception rate, although they ...