Last week during President Trump’s State of the Union, he declared: “As commander in chief, my focus is on building the most ...

The task is a “formidable” challenge that will “require a lot of teamwork,” said the acting undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.The post Work on ‘Golden Dome’ underway, says ...

Trump has called for an 'Iron Dome for America.' We speak with two experts about what next step in strategic homeland missile defense might look like.

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 ...

So what would this deterrent look like? First, not at all like Israel’s Iron Dome. Deployed in 2011 and largely financed by the United States, it features a system of ground-based air-defense ...

Missile defense experts agree Iron Dome would be ill-suited for such a mission to provide air and missile defense to a vast territory like the continental U.S. And, in fact, Iron Dome is a trade ...

Last month, President Donald Trump directed the construction of an ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense shield to protect the U.S. from potential airborne attacks. Named for Israel’s short-range ...

While the Iron Dome makes vital contributions to Israel’s security, a similar U.S.-based air defense system would be much costlier. It has been a big week for American manufacturer General Atomics.

“We need to differentiate between the Iron Dome, which is a short to medium-range range system — it became a brand name like Coca Cola that now everybody uses as it is highly successful,” he ...