The name is a sly clue indicating his multi-faceted goal of deploying a "state of the art" missile defense covering the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

Creating an Iron Dome for America would not just be a poor decision — it would be a monumental failure in defense policy.

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Order Echoes Cold War-Era Missile Defense Plan is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers. Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive critical ...

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

Now, 40 years on, President Trump has issued an executive order mandating the development and deployment of an American “next ...

Space-based missile defenses are the Holy Grail of American national defense. President Donald J. Trump wants to build an Iron Dome missile defense system for the entire United States. That’s what the ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

When it comes to protecting U.S. territory from missiles fired by such nuclear-powered countries as Russia, China, and North ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the development of an "Iron Dome" defense system to shield the United States from an intercontinental missile attack.

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

President Trump signed a number of new executive orders Monday night aimed at the U.S. military. Here is a breakdown of what he signed.