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Trump signs an executive command to build an American iron dome
The veteran’s chair, Jeremy Hunt, discusses why he supports the construction of a dome for national security purposes so that it can function a possible rocket defense system and how to restore military readiness.
President Donald Trump He ordered the construction of an advanced shield of the next generation traffic defense to protect the United States from an air attack.
On Monday, the President signed an executive order for the tasks of the Minister of Defense Peta Hegset to draw up plans to build a “iron dome for America” that will protect Americans from the threat of rocket launched by a foreign enemy. Trump has kept the promise of the campaign that the priority of the projectile will be prioritized.
“With the next term we will build a large iron dome over our country,” Trump said during a West Palm Beach event June 14 “We deserved a dome … It’s a rocket defense shield, and everything will be done in America.”
Trump says the construction of an iron dome will be ‘immediate’, signs the executive order
But what are Trump’s plans for the “Iron Dome”? Here’s what you need to know:
1. Israeli first defense
The Israeli iron dome system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
The Iron Dome Trump defense system called a similar to the one who developed Israel to intercept thousands of rockets.
The first line of Defense of Israel, The rocket defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is marked with an iron dome. It was first deployed in 2011, and has since refused and destroyed rockets from the terrorists of Hamas, the forces of Hezbollah and Iranian drones and rockets.
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The iron dome was on land and it was built to keep the citizens of Israel from the rocket barracks that were most often assigned to Palestinian terrorists in the gaza zone. Israeli officials claim that the iron dome was 90% effective in intercepting thousands of rockets fired in Israel.
The US has contributed at least $ 2.6 billion to the development of the Israeli Iron Dome System in 2011.
2. Threats facing the USA
Russia announced that it tested a hypersonic zircon missile in the Barents Sea on May 28, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry)
Critically, the Iron Dome is a short -range defense system that can deal with rockets with ranges between 2.5 miles and about 43 miles. Trump’s executive order identifies the attack of ballistic, hyperson and cruising rockets of a long reach as a “most honorable threat to face the United States”, so that its proposed defense system will need to adapt and redesign to defense against intercontinental rockets.
Russia is currently an arsenal of 1,250 distributed weapons, according to the New York Times. Pentagon analysts believe that China will have weapons of similar size weapons within 10 years, if not before, and North Korea continued to develop intercontinental ballistic rockets and according to Trump and according to Watch Joe Biden’s Watch.
Recently, Russia and China experimented with hyperson rockets, which are designed to exceed Mach 5 or five times higher sound speed. Intercepting of rockets with such speeds is a challenge that is now a partner with Japan to face estimated costs of $ 3 billion, Associate Press reported.
3. Reagan tried it first
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States and 33 California governor. (Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
President Ronald Reagan He was the first US president to invite the national defense system to confront the threats of the Nuclear weapon of the Soviet Union, including the heads of head related to Balistic rockets.
On March 30, 1983, Reagan suggested a “vision of the future that offers hope” that he called the initiative of a strategic defense (SDI). The idea was to develop a space program of a police defense that would protect the land from a large -scale nuclear attack. Reagan suggested that it develop technology that would allow the United States to identify and automatically destroy numerous incoming ballistic missiles before reaching their goals.
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Acknowledging that the technology for realizing his vision did not exist yet, Regan urged the scientific community to partner with a defense community and work in a future where Americans do not need to be afraid of nuclear attacks.
“I invite the scientific community in our country, those who have given us nuclear weapons, to now turn their great talents to humanity and world peace, to give us funds to make this nuclear weapon powerless and obsolete,” Reagan said.
The presidential critics demolished the plan, nicknamed him, “Star Wars,” and asked why his administration would continue the rally of defense initiative without a guarantee that he would succeed. The Soviet Union accused Regan of violating the 1972 anti-Balistic missile contract that has committed both countries that he would refrain from developing a rocket defense system. Weapons control measures stopped during the Reagan’s term because he refused to give up the project.
After Regan left his duty, the interest in the SDI failed and the program was canceled before the US could develop a functional rocket defense system. However, the survey conducted while the SDI was active contributed to the development of the iron dome. In 2002, he was now withdrawing from an anti-Balistic missile contract, which now allows Trump to pick up where Reagan stopped.
4. HEGSETHE LIST OF OBLIGATIONS
Pete Hegsetth is surrounded by his wife Jennifer Rauchet and his 7 children, as he swore as a new US defense minister of Vice -President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Service at the Washington White House, DC, January 25, January 25, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
According to Trump’s order, a freshly confirmed Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth You must submit to the president “reference architecture, requirements based on abilities and a plan to implement a new generation rocket defense shield”.
Plans must include defense against “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruising rockets and other next generations from peers, near PEER and lunatic opponents.”
Hegsetth is also instructed to accelerate the arrangement of the satellite sensor system developed by the Rocket Defense Agency, which is currently in the prototype phase. Called a hypersonic ballistic sensor space for tracking space, the system uses monitoring “birth to death” to follow threats to launch rockets through interception, according to the Ministry of Defense.
In addition, Trump’s command indicates the development and implementation of several space technologies to intercept rockets, including systems that could disable a rocket before launch, as well as a “secure supply chain” to ensure that the infrastructure of the traffic defense in America is made in America.
Hegsetth also has to handle a plan to pay for these dense systems before the president assembles his fiscal budget 2026.
5. Cooperating with us allies
Trump’s command calls “Increasing Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation on the Development, Operations and Operations of Rocket Defense”, as well as “increase and speed up providing the possibilities of the defense defense of the United States to allies and partners”.
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Hegsetth is also a focused on an overview of holding a US army rocket defense in cinemas around the world and identifies areas for cooperation with allies.
Fox News Digital, Gabriele Regalbuto, contributed to this report.
