https://defence-blog.com/army/u-s-army-will-acquire-israels-iron-dome-air-defense-systems.html

Great idea, given the US currently has next to nothing for medium range Air Defense systems. Hopefully they won't stop at only two batteries, this system should be deployed across the entire force.

Also kind makes sense that we would benefit from this, given that the US pretty much paid for it's development.

Nice to see that the Army isn't being a slave to the "not invented here" syndrome. First Trophy, now Iron Dome. USAF might want to take a look at some IDF kit as well....

Interesting. The main advantage of this system is (apart from the fact it's already combat proven with a successful interception rate exceeding 90%) that it is able to intercept targets as small as mortar shells threatening a predefined area (based on their trajectory), leaving the ones posing no threat unengaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4a_ie0J0hU

Perhaps this will lead to further collaboration, on tank design. Crew survivability with a punch.

We DO pay - a LOT! - for the IDF and its supporting weapons-development industries. Makes a lot of sense that we should at least consider adopting some of their tested-and-proven products for our own use. Israel serves as a sort of "proxy" weapons development-and-testing system that doesn't involve all of the Congressional over-sight, fiscal issues, cost-overruns, politicking and other complications that domestic defense contractors sometimes come along with! And the Israeli testing phase can't be beat for actual "realism" with real in-the-field conditions and contexts with real front-line users. No contrived scenarios, range-limitations, or set-up user circumstances and behaviors for this!

Of course, not every Israeli "successful solution to their sometimes special and unique problems" is likely to be equally useful to us in our oft-times rather different real-world applications... Ideally, we should look closely at ALL of the presumed-vrs-tested conditions and application assumptions involved in every system development and adoption case.

Bob

Great decision as not every incoming should be countered with 20mm CIWS.

Iron Dome can also perhaps be loaded into the FMTV Mobile Missile Launcher, and best of all, Iron Dome comes with 20 missiles per launcher and the radar can detect when the incoming is going to hit something or land in a vacant field, thus not wasting missiles to intercept.

Perhaps the US will buy "David's Sling" and "Arrow" too.

That seems to be the general direction: https://sputniknews.com/military/201802191061798419-israel-us-hetz-test-ministry/