Trump Signs Executive Order Creating ‘Iron Dome’ for America

The executive order covers a range of advanced missile and air defense capabilities.

A missile is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility to be intercepted as part of a Missile Defense Agency test in Kaui, Hawaii, on Nov. 6, 2007. U.S. Navy via Getty Images

The United States will begin revamping its missile defense capabilities under a new executive order President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 27.

Trump’s executive order called for a revamped set of layered missile defense capabilities to defeat ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise missiles, as well as other emerging aerial threats.