President Trump has ordered the U.S. an Iron Dome of its own. This was a campaign promise that he has put into motion with this executive order.
The Iron Dome is what Israel calls its first-rate defense system, designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets, artillery shells, and mortars. It only works when you turn it on though. And it doesn’t work against hypersonic missiles which Iran recently deployed against Israel to devastating effect.
Ronald Reagan had a similar idea and the press called it his Star Wars initiative. It was formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). It was never completed as the money and technology simply wasn’t there.
Is it now? There are a lot of big concept in this executive order like: Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, space-based interceptors, Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.
I don’t know what any of that means and whether or not any of it would be effective against a nuclear attack but who doesn’t like the idea of a safer fence line? In theory?
