Obama sees the Iron Dome missile defense system

Obama moves on to visit the Iron Dome anti-missile battery that has been set up at the airport.

“Where do you want to start?” he asks IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz.

“Follow the red line,” says Gantz.

“You’ve done a great job,” the president tells officers near the missile system. “This is a state of the art, multi-level” system, the president is told — Iron Dome for short-range rockets, supplemented by David’s Sling, Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 missile defense systems.

He’s now being shown a short film on the high-tech missile defense developments, with simulations of the systems in action. Iron Dome, funded with a supplementary US budget, intercepted 84% of missiles — close to 500 in all — fired at residential Israel from Gaza in November, proving itself in combat.

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