Trump: Golden Dome, which costs 175 billion US dollars, is led by Space Force's guetlein

Washington President Donald Trump announced his signature today Golden dome The effort costs 175 billion US dollars, and he has the vice boss of Space Force, General Michael Guetlein to head the project to head the project.

“As soon as the golden dome is completely constructed, it will be able to intercept rockets, even if they are started from other sides of the world, and even if they are started from space and we have ever built the best system,” said Trump in an oval office briefing, flanked by Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, US Senators and Guetter.

The Golden Dome project will be “fully functional” at the end of its term, Trump explained and set a challenging schedule for the extensive, highly complex initiative. According to Trump, Canada has also asked to join the efforts.

“You want to join and you want to see if you can be part of it,” said Trump about the northern neighbor of America with whom the Trump government had a controversial relationship. “It will not be very difficult. They pay their fair proportion,” he added.

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The Golden Dome program is first financed by a Republican legislator of 25 billion US dollars, which is defined in one Reconciliation billTrump said, although the legislation is now in the balance because they have the internal opposition under the Haus -Gop members.

Trump and other Oval Office participants were now thin in relation to which architecture the president was ready for operation before the end of his term. When asked about the three-year schedule, the rocket defense expert Tom Karako said to Break defense today: “It depends on how to describe the 'it' and said that the initiative will add a” gradual process “over time.

“It is not inappropriate to have an initial ability that better summarizes both military and non-military skills and improves our domain awareness,” said Karako, director of the missile defense project and senior scholarship holder of the defense and security department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In view of the “spread” of new strike capacities, an effort like Golden Dome is “long overdue,” he said.

Guetlein, seen Before many as a top candidate today to lead the Golden Dome exertion due to the central space in the future project, brings into the role of years of spatial experience. Previously, he was command of the Space System and worked directly with space systems such as the Sbirs rocket warning of the Pentagon and the persecution of the constellation of the Pentagon.

Guetlein referred to new threats such as “cruise rockets that can navigate through our radar and our defense” and said today that it was important to “double the protection of home”, and called the rocket defense project a “brave and aggressive approach”.

A system of systems

The efforts of the golden dome, which has its name from Israel's Iron Dome Air Defense system, was Created by an executive order Days after Trump's taking office in January. As the dome suggests in the name, the initiative aims to create a true air defense sign around the American home country to defend itself against a variety of threats, such as: B. cruise and ballistic rockets and weapons of the next generation such as Hyperpens.

The defensive plan would not set up exactly one system, said civil servant. Instead, Golden Dome will be a “system system” with several “layers” that first range from sensors that range from the ground to satellites. Data from these sensors would then feed an arsenal from Interceptors to put down an in -depth threat. As part of the plan, this would contain terrestrial interceptors, but also at least a number of spatial-based platforms that are supposed to destroy rockets shortly after the floor's agreement, while they are still called a boost phase in a flight.

But Golden Dome has numerous obstacles, including the financing and the feasibility of a room-based interceptor architecture. Despite the current estimate of Trump's $ 175 billion, others said that the price could be in several hundreds of billions of dollars, and some civil servants such as the Republican Senator of Montana, Tim Shehy, even predicted that it could cost in the “trillion”.

Golden Dome could also meet some technical roadblocks. The air certificate would be based on radars that are operated in the 3.1-3.45 GHz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, and DOD officials have warned This auction of parts of the spectrum for commercial use could endanger sensors that are of crucial importance for the efforts of the golden dome. And civil servants have also described a main challenge that not only successfully sets up individual systems, but also usable and effectively sew them together.

In addition to the technical restrictions, the plan also has its critics. For example, armor control experts have warned The initiative could destabilize the decades of nuclear doctrine by undermining the second strike ability of other nations. Senate Democrats have it too Causes regarding ethics Due to the influence of Elon Musk SpaceX, which Reuters reported, is a leader who wins some room-based golden dome work.

To compete “everyone”

During today's announcement of the Oval Office, Alaska's republican senator, Dan Sullivan, said the rocket defense efforts will consist of leaves of large defense companies such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and that “new defense technology companies” that can bring to a “lower” rocket defense skills. For his part, Trump seemed to say that Tech company would play a role, which indicates the “most brilliant heads in the world” from the Silicon Valley.

“The exciting thing is that everyone can take part in competitions. Large companies, medium -sized companies, small companies,” said North Dakota Republican Senator, Kevin Cramer, during the briefing in the Oval Office.

After the announcement, the TD Cowen analysts Roman Schweizer and Liz Huseynov said in a reference to investors that they were “skeptical that an impermeable sign of defending the continental rockets was feasible, but still regarded the golden dome as“ important catalyst for the development and field of critical abilities ”.

In today's comments, Trump made it possible for the United States to have an advantage because it is pursuing the Golden Dome program: “Super technology” that “nobody” does. He didn't work out.

Updated 20.05.25 at 6:21 p.m. ET with additional information from the briefing of the White House.