Washington – President Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration had selected the architectural design of an anti-missile defense system “Golden Dome” to protect the United States from foreign threats.
The president also said the budget package Republicans are currently reproducing on Capitol Hill will include a first 25 billion dollars to start building the anti -missile defense system. Trump said the total cost of the project would be around $ 175 billion, although it could be much more. The Congress has not yet financed the project, although Mr. Trump told journalists that he thought it will be easy to finance in Capitol Hill.
“Today, I am pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this cutting -edge system that will deploy new generation technologies across the country, the sea and the space, including sensors and space interceptors,” the president announced in the Oval office alongside the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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Trump said the project should be “fully operational before the end of my mandate”, which would be before January 2029. The president said that the system would be built in states such as Alaska, Florida, Georgia and Indiana, and will involve several American defense and technology companies and still select.
Canada wants to be involved in the project, said the president, adding that the United States wanted to help Canada as it can.
“Once fully built, the Golden Dome will be able to intercept the missiles even if they have been launched from other sides of the world and even if they have been launched from space,” he said. “And we will have the best system ever built.”
The president told journalists that he had suggested a new complete anti -missile defense system with American military leaders, and they agreed, not the other way around.
“I suggested it and they all said,” We love the idea, sir. This is how it must be, right?
The president expressed for months the desire for a defense system like that of Israel. In his Joint address of March In the congress, the president asked for funding for the system.
“I ask the congress to finance a shield of advanced gold dome to protect our homeland,” the president said in his speech at the Congress. “All done in the United States. Ronald Reagan wanted to do it a long time ago, but the technology was not there, not even close. But now we have technology. It’s amazing, actually. And other places have it. Israel has, other places have it, and the United States should also have it. ”
A new non-classified assessment of the Pentagon intelligence agency shows what threats the United States must defend itself in the next decade.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, expects the threats of missiles to the United States to develop both in scale and to sophistication, while the United States is faced with threats of foreign actors in the form of intercontinental ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles launched by submarine, two types of hypersonic weapons, fractional orbital bombing systems.
Mr. Trump wants a “golden dome” in the vein of Iron dome of IsraelThe country’s mobile air defense system that has intercepted projectiles since its installation in 2011. However, the Israeli iron dome is largely defended against short -term threats, such as rockets, while it has two other air defense systems to defend against missiles, which are increasingly used in conflict.
“Missile threats to the American homeland are developing in scale and sophistication in the next decade,” said the evaluation. “China and Russia develop a range of new delivery systems to exploit gaps in current American ballistic defenses, but traditional ballistic missiles – which are guided during the propelled and not guided flight during free flight – will remain the main threat to the fatherland. North Korea has successfully succeeded Ballistic missiles tested With sufficient scope to reach the whole fatherland, and Iran has space launch vehicles, it could use to develop an ICBM to military victim by 2035, if Tehran decided to continue the capacity. »»
The evaluation warns that China, Iran and North Korea will have much more intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2035, and “there is no part of the homeland which cannot be struck by existing ICBMs”. Although Iran has not currently known ICBMS, the DIA assessment suggests that it will have 60 by 2035. Keep Iran Becoming a nuclear power has been a key goal in the United States and its allies.
The evaluation also warns that the ballistic missiles launched by Chinese submarines will increase in number by 2035, and “there is no part of the homeland which cannot be struck by the existing adversaries SLBM”. Russia also has ballistic missiles launched by submarine.
In addition, the evaluation warns that China and Russia will increase their hypersonic weapons stimulated by 2035 several times. The report indicates that Russia and China can reach parts of the United States with these systems. The report also indicates
Finally, the report indicates that Russia and China should have what are called what are called fractional orbital bombing systems by 2035. These can orbit the globe, traveling on the South Pole to avoid early detection.