Trump wants an Israeli-style ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense shield for U.S.
Trump wants an Israeli-style ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense shield for U.S.
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Iron Dome system in the U.S. would reportedly detect and intercept long-range missiles. President Donald Trump is reportedly slated to sign an executive order that would call for the construction of a missile defense shield that could protect the United States against long-range attacks – similar to Israel’s Iron Dome.
![[Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth teased the announcement if an Iron Dome-like system for the U.S.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/27/20/SEI237580632.jpg)
Though no weapons of this sort have been used against the U.S. in modern times, it takes inspiration from the defense system that the U.S. helped Israel build and deploy in the 2000s. Newly-approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth teased the executive order in a speech on Monday.
According to the president, the new system “will be made all in the USA.”. The Iron Dome is the name of the aerial defense system developed and used by Israel to recognize, intercept and destroy short-range rockets and other weapons. Deployed in 2011, the system operates 24/7 in all weather conditions and can detect incoming threats between two and 43 miles away.
Once the system detects a threat it fires missiles at it to prevent it from striking populated areas. The developers of the Iron Dome, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, say it has a success rate of 90 percent. The U.S. supplied Israel with more than $2 billion to help create and maintain the Iron Dome.
Like the Iron Dome, the system Trump wants the U.S. to develop would detect, intercept and destroy incoming threats. However, the one the president wants would work against long-range missiles. It would reportedly use advanced space-based systems to detect and shoot down threats.
