The legislation is supposed to work in concert with the president's executive order, which he signed on Jan. 27. Trump's name for the policy, "Iron Dome for America," is a misnomer and not a ...

The Space Force is evaluating what systems it already has in development to support President Trump's order and what ...

During President Trump’s address to Congress the other day, he unveiled an ambitious proposal to develop a “Golden Dome” ...

The "Golden Dome" missile defense system proposed by President Donald Trump will require a whole-of-government effort to ...

Does the U.S. need advanced missile defense? President Trump's announcement to pursue it follows a long history.

Continental defenses that can provide perfect—or even near-perfect—protection for the US homeland are not feasible. New ...

experts say it could cost trillions and won’t work (AFP via Getty Images) Part of the reasoning there is how Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system works. It protects the Middle Eastern ...

That means the proposed Iron Dome would almost certainly require thousands ... “If you could even get to where a system like this could be made to work, the costs would be literally astronomical.

Then there is the cost: an Iron Dome actually modeled on Israel’s short-range missile defense system, scaled up to cover the 3.7 million square miles of the continental U.S. (the contiguous 48 ...