On today’s Technology Report, Bryan Clark, the director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute think tank, joins Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss President Trump’s plan to build an “Iron Dome” over America to defend against air and missile threats; what would be required to protect the nation; what areas would be protected and where not; how much such a system would cost; how effective it would be; the tradeoffs Americans would have to make in terms of diminished connectivity as bandwidth is shifted from commercial wireless cell and data services are shifted to powerful air and missile defense radar installations nationwide; and how adversaries would adapt to these new defense systems, including through novel means of delivering nuclear weapons including long-range unmanned underwater systems.
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