Posted on 01/27/2025 1:37:38 PM PST by airdalechief
Newly-confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday — his first day in the job — that President Trump will be issuing a spate of executive orders for the military, including one to create an "Iron Dome" defense system like the one used by Israel to deflect incoming missiles.
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Space-based weapon systems coming to an orbit near you.
“Iron dome is not useful for ICBMs. And since we are not likely to be attacked except by ICBMs, it won’t be much use to us.”
A U.S. Iron Dome would likely be more of a space based Brilliant Pebbles type system that would destroy ICBM’s in the boost phase. Not the same as the Israeli Iron Dome.
I believe Trump just likes using the term “Iron Dome” because of the success of the system in Israel. But you can be sure the Joint Chiefs of Staff will inform the President on exactly the type of system we need.
CQ BROWN IS A DEI BROWN NOSER!
Hasn’t the R&D been done already for ISRAEL?
Lol...you mean like CQ BROWN? HA!
“I agree. In a big war this won’t do much.”
And the vests worn by police officers won’t do much either in a large nuclear exchange; but they do help save lives every day.
The biggest threat to America may not be from Russia or Red China but from rouge nations with unstable leaders. Think of the religious zealots in Iran who see glory in self immolation.
I’m thinking the iron dome at first will be designed to handle a few incoming from small states. And until it is tested in war our opponents will not know for sure how good it is - or how lucky the U.S. may be.
Another option is to have a system to protect people in important states in the U.S. and to leave states like California and New York naked. I would be interested to see how liberals in those states react to such a plan.
Or Chinese bases in Panama
Yeah, Trump will be better for our national defense.
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