America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack – Asia Times

Despite spending billions of dollars, the US still lacks a credible ballistic missile defense to protect its territory from Russia, China or Iran. The US does have some defenses against a possible missile strike from North Korea but even these systems require billions of dollars in new investment for needed improvements.  

A good interim solution for the US would be to adopt Israel s Arrow-3 for homeland security defense, buying time to develop a new and capable ballistic missile defense system.

The US has three land-based missile defense systems and one sea-based system. Of the land-based systems, the Ground Based Midcourse Interceptor (GBI) is potentially the most important to protect US territory from an ICBM launch.  

Yet the GBI has performed poorly in tests. So much so, in fact, that the Pentagon decided to drop Boeing, the GBI s main contractor, and award an interim contract to Northrop and Lockheed to build 20 interceptor missiles. The new contracts are valued at US$3.7 billion.

via asiatimes.com

I guess there is a reason to give the Israels $3 billion for their Iron Dome (besides making AOC cry). After the Israelis build it out, we can use it ourselves. We’ll have lots of human infrastructure to protect.