The new US president wants to deploy a “next-generation missile defense shield” to protect the country from long-range attacks
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to develop a plan for a new integrated missile shield, arguing a potential sophisticated long-range aerial attack remains the “most catastrophic threat” the country is facing. The proposed missile shield takes its name after the Israeli Iron Dome system, which serves as the foundation for that country’s own multi-layer air-defense structure.
The freshly sworn-in president on Monday tasked the defense secretary with the creation of the system in an executive order, dubbed ‘The Iron Dome for America.’
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth now has 60 days to hatch the plan to protect the US from “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries” and envision the new multi-layered…
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