A U.S. Iron Dome would be a waste of taxpayer money and ... missile defenses have a good interception rate, although they fail to publish these numbers to the public. Thankfully, organizations ...

The Iron Dome was built and has been maintained with billions of dollars in funding from the United States. It was first approved in 2007 , and shot down its first missiles in 2011.

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza on Oct. 11, 2023. (Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images) In a bit of verbal alchemy, the Pentagon is turning iron into gold.

Meanwhile, in June, some US government officials told CNN that the Iron Dome system may fail in the face of more advanced ...

Although the U.S. has developed “limited” defenses designed to stop a small missile attack from the likes of North Korea, the Jan. 27 order – “The Iron Dome for America” – directs the ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress appears poised to send $1 billion to Israel to replenish the Iron Dome missile defense system that Israel depleted during its conflict with Hamas in May. But the ...

Gen. Saltzman added that Space Force had already established an integrated planning team to investigate options related to the Iron Dome executive order. “I think we have a central role to play.