USA You have very ambitious plans for your system ‘Golden Dome’Golden dome in Spanish, A multidominium shield intended to counteract next -generation threats from land, sea, air and even space. Donald Trump New details about this defense system of this architecture has already provided yesterday, it will cost some 175,000 million dollars And it will be operational ‘In less than three years’.
‘Once completed, the golden dome will be able to intercept missiles even if they are thrown from the other side of the world, or from space. We will have the best system ever built‘, said Trump.
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Partly inspired by the Israeli system Iron domethe golden dome is designed to operate on a much larger scale. It will be significantly larger and will be prepared to neutralize a broader range of threatsincluding cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles -which exceed the speed of sound -drones and fractional orbital bombing systems (FOBS), capable of throwing eyelets from space.
The deputy director of Space operations of space force, Michael Guetleinwill supervise the program. Guetlein has warned about the risks of the modernization of nuclear weapons of adversary powers: ballistic missiles with multiple eyelets, hypersonic missiles capable of reaching the US. In one hour, evasive cruise missiles, stealth submarines and space weapons. ‘It’s time to change that equation and double efforts to protect our homeland’he said.
Trump stood out from the oval office that the system intends to neutralize threats in multiple phases: Before the launch, in full flight, in the terminal phase and even do it from orbital platforms. “There really is no system, ‘Trump said. ‘We have certain defenses for some missiles, but not a system … There has never been anything like this‘.
During the press conference, few technical details were offered on how the golden dome will work. ‘Only we have this technology, we call it Supertenology. It will be integrated with our current abilities and It will be fully operational before my term ends‘, said Trump.
The golden dome will partially operate from space to intercept threats before they reach the US territory. Is In the impulse phaseafter launch, when missiles fly more slowly, they are easier to detect and are more vulnerable.
The system will require so much a network of alert and monitoring satellites such as land sensors and space interceptors. Will have one open architectureso that it will not depend on a specific supplier and may incorporate new capabilities. A centralized command structure will expedite coordination between the different defense layers and guarantee an answer Before threats difficult to detect and extremely fast anywhere in the world.
‘All will be shot down,’ said Trump, highlighting that the system success rate ‘is very close to 100 %‘. The president of the United States also declared that Canada He has shown interest in joining the initiative. In a visit to Washington earlier this year, the then Canadian Minister of Defense, Bill Blair, confirmed the interest of the country, qualifying the project as ‘a matter of national interest’ and stating that ‘it makes sense’ that Canada participates.
The United States already tried to develop space antimile weapons under the presidency of Ronald Reagan In the 80s, through a Strategic Defense Initiative that he dubbed informally like Star Warsbut was abandoned for its complexity and for its cost. The 175,000 million planned for the golden dome will remain, in all likelihood, short if the system develops and works for decades. The Congress Budget Office has estimated that only the spatial part of the system could cost up to 542,000 million dollars within 20 years.