Senate wants Army plan to assess, experiment with Israeli-developed Iron Dome

By Jason Sherman / June 20, 2018 at 7:00 AM
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation that would require the Army to draft a plan to experiment with Iron Dome, an Israeli-developed system designed to shoot down rockets and low-flying threats, in a move that could set the stage for proponents of the system to fight for a slice of future Pentagon spending on air defense for U.S. ground forces. The Senate panel, in its version of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill, would direct the Army to...

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