Why Are We Paying To Develop Israel's Missile Defense System But Cannot Have Access To The Technology?

Photos: “Iron Dome” launcher near Sderot, Israel (left); “Iron Dome” radar installation

U.S. Funds Israeli Missile Defense But Can’t Get the Technology -- Michael Tennant, New American

The United States has spent over $200 million on a highly effective missile defense system and plans to spend nearly $700 million more on it — yet U.S. troops in the field, including the highest-ranking military officer in the land, are still largely at the mercy of insurgents’ rockets. Why?

The answer is that U.S. taxpayers have been shelling out big bucks for the defense of a foreign country; and that country, in turn, has been unwilling to disclose to Washington the details of the missile defense system it is funding. All the while, a company owned by that same country’s government is raking in profits manufacturing and selling the system.

The country in question is Israel, and the missile defense system is called Iron Dome.

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My Comment: If you pay for it .... you should own it. But how the U.S. gets itself into these ridiculous situations sometimes amazes me.