Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy questioned why the United States doesn’t have an 'Iron Dome' defense s
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires near Ashkelon to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, May 11, 2023. The Iron Dome is designed to combat threats such as those faced by Israel, a small nation hemmed in by enemies. Because the U.S. is larger and doesn’t have the same threats from its direct neighbors, the technology is less useful here.
"We don’t have an Iron Dome in this country, yet, we’re vulnerable to nuclear missile attacks any given day," Ramaswamy, a businessman, said on Tucker Carlson’sCarlson later replied,"How could you pay for a much-needed defense system in another country but not in your own country? I don’t understand that. How can you pretend to be a leader in your country if you're doing something like that? That seems so immoral to me.
This is how it works: Radar detects incoming rockets and sends information about projected paths to the command and control center. This component determines the threat level and whether the rockets are likely to strike inhabited areas. If the system concludes that there is a threat, an interceptor fires missiles from the ground to destroy the rockets in the air. Israel’s Iron Dome consists of multiple batteries and interceptors that can destroy hundreds of projectiles at once.
Iron Dome"is not designed for nor capable of intercepting nuclear warheads launched from intercontinental ranges," said retired U.S. Air Force Col. Dana Struckman, a Naval War College professor who said he spoke for himself and not the college or the military. "Defending the U.S. homeland from very long range ballistic missiles is very hard technologically," said Brendan Green, a University of Cincinnati professor who has studied nuclear issues."Current systems would attempt to intercept these missiles in outer space with conventional weapons. This is a very tough engineering problem, but even more importantly, it is a tough physics problem to discriminate warheads from decoys.
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