Iron Dome heads to missile defense experiment in Guam
By Jen Judson
Oct 7, 06:16 PM
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will send to Guam one of the two Iron Dome air-and-missile defense batteries it recently purchased as an interim solution for cruise missile defense, according to an Oct. 7 statement from the 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.
The deployment, dubbed Operation Iron Island, will test the capabilities of the system and further train and refine the deployment capabilities of air defenders, the statement notes. It will also fulfill the requirement in the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that an Iron Dome battery be deployed to an operational theater by the end of 2021.
Iron Dome will arrive in mid-October and the exercise will last through November, an Army spokesman confirmed.
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