{"id":24410,"date":"2025-05-22T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=24410"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:26:17","slug":"usa-what-is-the-golden-dome-defence-system-announced-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=24410","title":{"rendered":"USA: What is the Golden Dome defence system announced by Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump has announced that he has approved spending of $175 billion for the multi-layered Golden Dome missile defense program, which aims to counter aerial threats \u201ceven if they come from space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the project, the US will deploy missile interceptors in space to protect itself from ballistic and hypersonic threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What did Trump announce?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump announced an initial funding of $25 billion for the project, which will cost a total of $175 billion and will be completed by the end of his current term in 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnce fully built, Golden Dome will be able to intercept missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the planet, even if they are launched from space,\u201d Trump stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also announced that U.S. Space Force General Michael Gatlin would be the lead director of the program, responsible for overseeing the project\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI promised the American people that I would build a state-of-the-art missile defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also announced, \u201cCanada has reached out to us, they want to be part of the project. So we\u2019ll be talking to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is Golden Dome?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said that Golden Dome will shoot down \u201chypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles.\u201d He added that the program will have space-based interceptors and sensors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said for his part that the system aims to protect the \u201chomeland from cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, drones, whether they are conventional or nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement came a few months after Trump\u2019s executive order (27\/1), which said \u201cto immediately begin construction of a state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile shield, which will be able to protect Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iron Dome is Israel\u2019s missile defense system that detects an incoming missile, determines its course and intercepts it. The development of the system was funded by the US through a grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Trump&#039;s Golden Dome and how will it work?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENuxO4fVdnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump noted that existing defense capabilities will be used in the construction of the project and estimated the total cost to be about $175 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has not yet provided further details about the project. While Trump said the system would be developed in the United States, he did not name which companies would be involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A space-based defense system was first envisioned by Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989. In the midst of the Cold War, Reagan had advocated building a \u201cbarrier\u201d against nuclear weapons, which included space technology, as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will actually complete the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, ending the missile threat to our homeland forever,\u201d Trump said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Is it possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industry experts have questioned the plan\u2019s timeline and budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funding for the Golden Dome has yet to be secured. At a press conference on Tuesday, Trump confirmed that he has requested $25 billion for the system in a tax cut bill currently moving through Congress, although that amount could be cut amid ongoing negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, some variation in the total cost of the project is expected. Three versions of the plan, described as \u201cmoderate,\u201d \u201chigh,\u201d and \u201cextremely high.\u201d These versions correspond to the number of satellites, sensors, and interceptors that will be placed in space. Trump chose the \u201chigh\u201d version, which has an initial cost ranging between $30 billion and $100 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe new data suggests a cost of $175 billion, but the question remains: When could it be completed? Probably in 10 years,\u201d Tom Karako, a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Division of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 1, 42 Democratic members of the US Congress signed a letter rejecting the possible involvement of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which is among the leading technology companies seeking to build key components of the Golden Dome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMr. Musk has exerted inappropriate influence in the Golden Dome contract case. This is a continuation of a disturbing pattern in which Mr. Musk has violated conflict of interest rules,\u201d the letter said, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How are Russia and China responding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States sees a growing threat from China and Russia, its main competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent decades, China has greatly advanced its ballistic and hypersonic missile technology, while Moscow has one of the most advanced intercontinental-range missile systems on the planet. Russia and the United States have amassed the world\u2019s largest arsenals of nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The threat from drones has also increased amid the advancement of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has denounced the Golden Dome as a threat to international security and accused the United States of provoking an arms race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States puts its own interests above all else and is obsessed with pursuing its own absolute security, which violates the fundamental principle that no country should pursue its own security at the expense of the security of other countries,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said during a regular briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c(The plan) increases the risk of space becoming a battlefield, fuels an arms race and undermines international security,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kremlin said the Golden Dome missile defense plan was a \u201cdominant issue\u201d for the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a dominant issue for the United States. If the United States believes that there is a missile threat, then of course it will develop a missile defense system,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is what all countries do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course, in the near future, the development of events will require the resumption of contacts to restore strategic stability,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced that he has approved spending of $175 billion for the multi-layered Golden Dome missile defense program, which aims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,819],"tags":[161,655,6984,70],"class_list":["post-24410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-golden-dome","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24413,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions\/24413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}