BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY.” Since taking office, Trump has moved to make good on ...

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 ...

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

Iron Dome was designed to protect civilian areas from missile threats, especially in regions with limited warning time. The system works by detecting incoming projectiles, tracking their ...

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 ...

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 ...