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Iron Dome over the United States

by thebesig••36

President Donald Trump makes good on one of the promises he made during his campaign. Trump signed an executive order calling for the establishment of an “iron dome” over the United States. Trump listed his justifications for this executive order, including the growing threats involving new technologies and novel missile strategies. Trump also addressed Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was intended to do the same thing, but was discontinued.

From the White House:

Section 1. Purpose. The threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks, remains the most catastrophic threat facing the United States.

President Ronald Reagan endeavored to build an effective defense against nuclear attacks, and while this program resulted in many technological advances, it was canceled before its goal could be realized. And since the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and initiated development of limited homeland missile defense, official United States homeland missile defense policy has remained only to stay ahead of rogue-nation threats and accidental or unauthorized missile launches.

Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near-peer adversaries of next-generation delivery systems and their own homeland integrated air and missile defense capabilities.

Additional Reading:

Trump, D. (2025, January 27). The iron dome for America. White House. Link.

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36 thoughts on “Iron Dome over the United States”

    1. Unfortunately yes, we need the MIC with all it’s faults but one
      of the upsides is good high paying jobs with benefits and a
      well educated populace.

  5. So I guess I’m getting called back into service.
    Shold be easy enough. I can sit down on the jerb.

      1. Chip, you need to go full-color with the NASA meatball — just like we did with the “Puking Buzzard” (101st) in the 1980s.

        rgr1480NASA
        (I was thinking about changing my handle …. but nah — you’re the original!)

        1. DO IT!!! I don’t own that bitch!! Feel free.
          Also, I really wanted it in subdued but I can’t find that anywhere. The black one a co-worker gave me as it’s for the NASA Crew flightsuits and some SpecOps Security crew at Kennedy. (they also have a camo one I’ve seen on photos.)

      1. Works though. That chemical laser will send usable energy thousands of miles through the atmosphere.

      1. Hell yeah! Actually being able to be forward-deployed and do your job in places in CONUS (like in the old days before everything got pulled back to Ft Bliss) and not the Persian Gulf or other sh*hole locations!

  7. This is all well and good, but we still have the issue of internal radical Muslims in this country who might try to pull off another 9-11 when, you know, “some people did something”. I know Orange Man Bad and Tom Hohman will do a great job of rounding up the illegal turds, but they can’t get all of them. However, its these shitheads that are living quietly among us as a part of “normal” society that concern me the most. I can see another 9-11 looming, but I sure hope not.

    1. Agreed 0331.. part of.me is wondering if they’ll push up whatever timetables they previously had due to fears of being rounded up..

    2. IDGAF who it is, from the moment after someone “Gives me their pronouns, I will view him/her/it as a joke!

  9. While we have been limiting what defense weapons we build, the ChiComs (and others) have steadily been building serious offensive weapons. What’s wrong with this picture?

    Prepare

  10. A few years ago, around 2017, a buddy and I were discussing what to do about North Korea’s nuclear program. He surprised me by saying we should do nothing, except make one thing clear. If the North Koreans, or anyone else ever uses a nuke on the US, we destroy them. We destroy every one of their cities, annihilate their culture, make everyone of their citizens a refugee, and ensure that whoever made the decision to attack the US will absolutely, without a doubt, not survive.

    Peace through fear.

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