President Donald Trump speaks about Golden Dome within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Might of this 12 months.
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President Donald Trump speaks about Golden Dome within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Might of this 12 months.
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This 12 months, President Trump requested funding from Congress for a “Golden Dome for America” — a missile protection system that might shield all the United States.
The thought comes from Israel’s Iron Dome — a community of interceptor missiles stationed at factors throughout the nation. Iron Dome and associated Israeli air defenses do not get each missile fired — together with some launched prior to now few days by Iran — however the Israeli army says it has intercepted hundreds of rockets because it was constructed.
And constructing a Golden Dome within the U.S. would not be straightforward.
Israel is over 4 hundred instances smaller than America. And Jeffrey Lewis, a professor on the Middlebury Institute of Worldwide Research who tracks missile applications, says the sorts of missiles that might assault the U.S. are very totally different than those used to strike Israel.
He says, in comparison with Iron Dome, constructing a Golden Dome is “the distinction between a kayak and a battleship.”
Learn extra of Geoff Brumfiel’s reporting on this topic and discover NPR’s protection of the Center East here.
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