"Israel Has It, US Should Too": Behind Trump's 'Golden Dome' Missile Shield | Read

Donald Trump Latest | Donald Trump has vowed to construct a 'Golden Dome' - similar to Israel's 'Iron Dome' missile defence - as he build :"the most powerful military of the future". The first step, he told a joint sitting of the United States Congress is to fund a "state-of-the-art missile shield to protect our homeland". Trump - who made a raft of eyebrow-raising declarations, many of which were fact-checked by American media and found to be false or incomplete, including comments about the price of eggs under his predecessor, Joe Biden - was referring to a shield against ballistic missiles, while are among the most complicated weapons systems to design, develop, and operationalise. He claimed Ronald Reagan, the 40th US President, who served from 1981 to 1989, wanted to build a similar system but lacked the technology to do so. "Israel and other places have it... and the US should too," he said, "This is a very dangerous world. We're going to protect our citizens like never before."