The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced a plan for his ambitious antimile defense shield “Golden Dome” this week, stating that it will cost $ 175 billion and will take time to develop about three years, but some experts say the price is often higher.
The Golden Dome project aims to see the design of the United States and deploy a Missile Defense Shield of the next general, especially the US Continental that can detect, track and intercept hypersonic missiles and other advanced aerial threats. What makes Golden Dome unique is that he will have space -based interceptors: the spacecraft in the earth’s orbit capable of knocking down missile threats halfway.
On Tuesday (May 20), Trump and the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseeth, held a press conference in the duration of the White House, which Schey announced that the general of the United States space force, Michael Guetlein, vice president of space operations, would lead the program. “It’s time for us to change that equation and start to double the protection of the homeland,” Guetlein said the press conference.
Hegseeth issued a statement on May 20 that states that the Department of Defense requests an initial financing of $ 25 billion as part of the “One, Big Beaut Beat” legislation of Trump that includes tax cuts and changes to spend.
“We hope to continue that work with Congress to obtain funds for the necessary critical capabilities in the FY26 budget application,” added Hegseeth’s statement. “Golden Dome ensures that the American homeland is not exposed, while adversaries develop more advanced and lethal long -range weapons.”
The Congress Budget Office (CBO) published a report on May 5 that estimates the cost of deploying a constellation of space interceptors similar to what Trump has outlined in his vision for Golden Dome. According to the CBO, the lowest estimates to develop and implement said system are around $ 161 billion, which is below Trump’s projected costs. The highest estimates of the CBO suggest that the Kuld cost reaches $ 542 billion, or more than half billion dollars.
Actually, the final price could be higher.
Duration A security summit organized by Political this month, the head of space operations of the United States Space Force, General B. Chance Saltzman explained his cost estimates. “I am 34 years in this business; I have never seen an early estimate that was too high,” said Saltzman, according to Air and Space Forces magazine. “My instinct tells me that it will be an additional financing.”
While Golden Dome is described as a purely defensive system, Meean to protect the adjacent United States, other nations already question the intention behind the program.
China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao None None Reporters Today (May 21) That the Golden Dome Will “Expand the Usenal of Means for Combat Operations in Outer Space” and Has “A Strong Offensive Nature” That “Violates The Principle of Pacefulpul Or Pacefulpul Or Pacefulpul PACERFULULE OF PACEFULULE OF PACEFULULU OF PACEFULULUL OF PACEFULLUL OF PACEFULLUL OF RHYTHM OF RHYTHM OR RHYTHM OF RAM OF RAX RAX OR RANGE OF RANGE RANGE OR RAM OF RAM OR RHYTHM “. “” “” “
While Russia initially criticized the initiative, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday (May 20) that Golden Dome is “a sovereign issue for the United States” and that the United States should build defenses in the times.
Golden Dome is inspired, at least of his name, by Iron Dome de Israel, a missile shield system that has been used since 2011 by Israel’s defense forces to intercept rockets and artillery weapons. It consists of radar systems that detect and track threats, missile launchers and a control center that coordinates between the two.
Golden Dome also has its roots in an previous antimile defense program proposed by President Ronald Reagan, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan presented the idea on a television in March 1983 in which he implored the scientific community to help defense armaments based on the development of the development of the United States that could be the threat of “impotent and obsolete nuclear weapons”.
The SDI program received the nickname of “Star Wars” by the media due to how extravagant it sounded at that time. But that was before the orbit of the Earth was militarized, the launch of the fun exponentially thanks to the reusable rocket technology, and the countries began to display weapons based on space as the taste of which they were Hen de Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Gallina Handen Hen Hen Hen Hen Hen Hen Handen Hen Handen Hen Hen Handen Hen Handen Hen Hen Handen Hen Hoen Hen’s Reagan.
Fast advance four decades and Trump says that the Golden Dome project could realize Reagan’s vision.
“We will really complete the work that President Regan began forty years ago, ending forever the threat of missiles for the American homeland,” Trump said.
