The U.S Army has confirmed that it will be buying two sets of the Israeli Iron Dome anti-missile system to assess it ability to “protect deployed U.S. military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire threats and aerial threats.”
Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
The statement added that no decision has been made on which specific theaters the systems will be deployed and the “U.S. Army will assess a variety of options for its long-term IFPC solution.”