Iron Dome for the US - Is this dangerous?

[SavedByGrace3]

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces

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[Nithavela]

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces

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Sounds like a great way to bring down the price of eggs.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Sounds like a great way to bring down the price of eggs.

...and of course that has nothing to do with it...but you already knew that...

 

[Nithavela]

...and of course that has nothing to do with it...but you already knew that...

Exactly. This foolish proposal of a waste of money has nothing to do with making the life of US citizens more bearable. To the contrary, it would waste a huge amount of manpower and ressources.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Exactly. This foolish proposal of a waste of money has nothing to do with making the life of US citizens more bearable. To the contrary, it would waste a huge amount of manpower and ressources.

Incorrect. Protecting the US is never a waste of money. It would also create jobs because it will be made and used in the US.

 

[Laodicean60]

Hell No!

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Sounds like a great way to bring down the price of eggs.

It's so funny that Trump has been in office for just over 1 week and the liberals, who were in charge for the last 4 years where inflation soared, are suddenly whining about the price of eggs all of a sudden lol! Where were you all the last 4 years?!?!! Oy vey!

 

[Laodicean60]

I hope there is good coverage where my kids live and I'm not talking about Verizon.

 

[Nithavela]

Incorrect. Protecting the US is never a waste of money. It would also create jobs because it will be made and used in the US.

Throwing bricks through windows also creates jobs.

You already have the biggest military budget in the world by far, and now you want to saddle another multi-trillion project on top of it?

 

[Nithavela]

It's so funny that Trump has been in office for just over 1 week and the liberals, who were in charge for the last 4 years where inflation soared, are suddenly whining about the price of eggs all of a sudden lol! Where were you all the last 4 years?!?!! Oy vey!

Perhaps there were no complaints about the price of eggs in the last few years because their price has only been going through the roof since the 20th.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Throwing bricks through windows also creates jobs.

Yes, Soros did fund BLM riots...to throw bricks through windows and burn cities down...but you already knew that...

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Perhaps there were no complaints about the price of eggs in the last few years because their price has only been going through the roof since the 20th.

LOL...that's not true, but you already knew that...under Biden what was that % inflation again??? Also there is bird flu so lots of chickens dying...

 

[JosephZ]

Can Donald Trump really build an Iron Dome over America?

In a word, no. The president-turned-candidate is still selling the same old missile-defense snake oil.

It might be worth $2.5 trillion if the system could truly defend the country. But it can’t. Iron Dome is designed to intercept relatively primitive rockets and mortars that travel under 44 miles. That is fine if you want to defend San Diego from rockets launched from Tijuana, some 35 miles away. But the system couldn’t even protect Mar-a-Lago from missiles fired from the Bahamas, some 80 miles away.

That is because long-range missiles pose a fundamentally different, more complex threat than short-range missiles.

We now have—after decades of effort—systems that can reliably intercept short- and medium-range missiles that travel tens or even hundreds of miles. These missiles are relatively slow, large, and hot targets. They travel mostly through the atmosphere, preventing them from deploying any kind of decoys against the interceptors.

Reliably intercepting long-range missiles that travel thousands of miles and are fast, small, and cold as they speed through outer space has proved impossible, particularly if the adversary deploys countermeasures like decoys, chaff, and jammers. The interceptors can’t see the target and even when the warhead enters the atmosphere, stripping away the decoys deployed in space, it is traveling so fast (around 4 miles per second) and is so small that it is an extraordinarily difficult target. Add in the ability of the adversary to simply overwhelm defensive systems with more warheads than there are interceptors, and the defense has insurmountable problems.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I don't know how a short range interceptor missle traveling at mach 2 will stop a warhead traveling at mach 19, but if President Trump says we need it, then we do. It will help if the Canadians start launching homemade missles at us.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Can Donald Trump really build an Iron Dome over America?

In a word, no. The president-turned-candidate is still selling the same old missile-defense snake oil.

President Trump is preparing an executive order for a “next-generation” defense shield to protect the US against ballistic missiles...

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

I don't know how a short range interceptor missle traveling at mach 2 will stop a warhead traveling at mach 19, but if President Trump says we need it, then we do. It will help if the Canadians start launching homemade missles at us.

so you are saying we do not have the capacity to have missiles also traveling at mach 19 or faster? maybe only the aliens do lol

 

[Aryeh Jay]

so you are saying we do not have the capacity to have missiles also traveling at mach 19 or faster? maybe only the aliens do lol

I am not saying that, but that ain't Iron Dome.

 

[Laodicean60]

I don't know how a short range interceptor missle traveling at mach 2 will stop a warhead traveling at mach 19, but if President Trump says we need it, then we do. It will help if the Canadians start launching homemade missles at us.

We have lasers in the works that might get the job done. Also, there are more weapons systems with greater range than you mentioned.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I would like to see someone hit a fired 30-06 bullet with a bow and arrow.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

We have lasers in the works that might get the job done. Also, there are more weapons systems with greater range than you mentioned.

Iron Dome was the system mentioned.