Forty years after President Ronald Reagan first conceived the idea, defense industry leaders say the technology is finally ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to bolster the defense of the American homeland with a U.S.-style Iron Dome missile system ... detailed how the system could look under President Trump.

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

Missile defense experts agree Iron Dome would be ill-suited for such a mission to provide air and missile defense to a vast territory like the continental U.S. And, in fact, Iron Dome is a trade ...

Trump has called for an 'Iron Dome for America.' We speak with two experts about what next step in strategic homeland missile defense might look like.

So what would this deterrent look like? First, not at all like Israel’s Iron Dome. Deployed in 2011 and largely financed by the United States, it features a system of ground-based air-defense ...

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 ...

(Eric Dietrich/Air Force) The Space Force will play a “central role” in the Pentagon’s efforts to develop a homeland missile defense shield, or Iron Dome for America, according to the ...

“We need to differentiate between the Iron Dome, which is a short to medium-range range system — it became a brand name like Coca Cola that now everybody uses as it is highly successful,” he ...