President Donald Trump speaks about Golden Dome within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Might of this yr.
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President Donald Trump speaks about Golden Dome within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Might of this yr.
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This yr, President Trump requested funding from Congress for a “Golden Dome for America” — a missile protection system that will defend all the United States.
The concept 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 up to now few days by Iran — however the Israeli army says it has intercepted 1000’s of rockets because it was constructed.
And constructing a Golden Dome within the U.S. would not be simple.
Israel is over 4 hundred instances smaller than America. And Jeffrey Lewis, a professor on the Middlebury Institute of Worldwide Research who tracks missile packages, says the sorts of missiles that will assault the U.S. are very completely different than those used to strike Israel.
He says, in comparison with Iron Dome, constructing a Golden Dome is “the difference between a kayak and a battleship.”
Learn extra of Geoff Brumfiel’s reporting on this matter and discover NPR’s protection of the Center East right here.
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