CALHOUN COUNTY, MI — Michigan could be the future home of an advanced missile defense site if a few U.S. congressmen get ...

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

Iron Dome was developed by the Israeli firm Rafael with Washington’s support. The majority of the components of the Tamir interceptor missiles that the Iron Dome fires are sourced through RTX ...

Right now the U.S. has 44 ground-based interceptor missiles ... Then there is the cost: an Iron Dome actually modeled on Israel’s short-range missile defense system, scaled up to cover the ...

More than half of the funding, $12 billion, would specifically go to expanding the missile interceptor fields ... Trump’s name for the policy, “Iron Dome for America,” is a misnomer and ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to bolster the defense of the American homeland with a U.S.-style Iron Dome missile system ... not the interceptor, it's not the launcher. The most difficult ...

Constructing an American version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system will ... also developing what it calls the Next Generation Interceptor, which it had expected to begin fielding ...

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

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President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists that new tech can finally make it happen.

Creating an Iron Dome defensive umbrella for the United States or Europe, modeled after Israel’s eponymous system, would be unsuitable against the threat of long-range missiles, according to ...