Started out the morning contemplating the Golden Dome missile defense system, modeled after Israel's Iron Dome, Trump has announced he wants to build, some $25 Billion in start-up costs for which is included in current budget discussions. Total construction cost is projected to be a pitifully insufficient $175 Billion.
According to army-technology.com Israel's Iron Dome is a truck-mounted defense system that protects against artillery shells, rockets, and short-range missiles. Israel posesses ten batteries of Iron Dome equipment, enough to protect the country's major population centers, of which there are several.
The country of Israel is less than half the size of the United States' Lake Michigan.
It's gonna take a whole lot of dome to protect the whole U.S. And even if this "golden" version does get built, eventually (the current plan calls for 10 years but projects like this are famous for running behind schedule), it'll be obsolete before it's done.
[Lake Michigan is the largest of the Great Lakes by area. Lake Superior is the largest by volume. Lake Superior is, needless to say, superior.]
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