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Bring on the Golden Dome — with Iran war, the age of missile defense is here

We officially live in the age of missile defense. 

The US-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran’s foremost military threat to Israel, American forces and other countries around the region. 

If not for these defensive systems, the United States and Israel probably wouldn’t have dared launch this military campaign — or at the very least would have done so knowing that Iran could exact an enormous cost on Israeli civilians and allied military forces. 

We’ve seen the toll of one successful Iranian ballistic missile strike: A missile that hit a synagogue in the Beit Shemesh area where people were sheltering killed nine people and wounded nearly 30, according to the latest reports.

It left a massive crater, destroyed cars and set fire to other buildings in the vicinity.

Imagine that destruction multiplied dozens or hundreds of times a day in Iranian retaliatory attacks. 

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