Kyiv Cruise Missile Strike Highlights Need to Protect U.S. Cities
Russia recently attacked Kyiv with a cruise missile in a menacing demonstration of Moscow’s ability to carry out a long-range strike against a metropolitan target. The successful assault exposed vulnerabilities in Ukraine’s air defenses—and highlighted similar gaps in those of the U.S. Now the Pentagon wants to test technology that it hopes can defend American cities against the very same type of weapon.
This experiment, a proposed 2023 event called the Cruise Missile Defense–Homeland Kill Chain Demonstration, would…