“I’ll construct an Iron Dome over our nation, a state-of-the-art missile protection protect made within the USA,” former US president Donald Trump, who’s now the main candidate within the 2024 Republican presidential primaries, mentioned in New Hampshire on Tuesday night time.
“We do it for different international locations,” he mentioned of the Iron Dome. “We assist different international locations… We’ve constructed… however we do not do it for ourselves,” Trump mentioned on stage.
“Now we have unbelievable expertise,” Trump continued, “we should always have that,” he mentioned of the Iron Dome. He associated to his visits to Israel with out truly mentioning it by identify. “I’ve seen so many issues. I’ve seen pictures that you just would not even consider… they obtained missiles launched, and also you hear a bell go… it is so unbelievable.”
Of these who invented the Iron Dome, he mentioned that they’re “geniuses” and that “these should not muscle guys right here,” he mentioned pointing at his arms, “they’re muscle guys up right here,” he then pointed at his head.
Trump repeated, “We do not have it [Iron Dome technology] right here. However, we assist different international locations in having it now.” He concluded, “We will have the best Iron Dome. Let’s name it Iron Dome, and it may be manufactured, plenty of it, proper right here in New Hampshire.”
What’s Israel’s Iron Dome?
Iron Dome is an Israeli cell air protection system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. It’s designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells inside 4 to 70 kilometers, concentrating on populated areas. Since its operational deployment in March 2011, the system has been notably profitable, together with a reported 90% interception fee for rockets from Gaza aimed toward populated areas.
America has considerably funded the Iron Dome, contributing $1.6 billion from 2011 to 2021 and an extra $1 billion in 2022. Moreover, plans were introduced in 2017 to deploy Iron Dome batteries at sea on Sa’ar 6-class corvettes to guard offshore gasoline platforms, increasing their variety and flexibility.
