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Trump carries out the plan of the rocket defense system for Golden Dome

US President Donald Trump announces an announcement on the sign of the Golden Dome rocket defense alongside US defense minister Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, May 20, 2025.

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President Donald Trump has triggered plans for a billion dollar “Golden Dome” rocket defense shield shield system on Tuesday and expected that it could be in operation in around three years.

“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 will ever have built the best system,” said Trump in the Oval Office in addition to Defense Minister Pete Hegseth.

“We have officially selected an architecture for this state -of -the -art system in which next generation technologies are used throughout the country, sea and space, including spatial -based sensors and interceptors,” said the president.

The US space Force General Michael Guetlein, the Vice President of Space Operations, will monitor the massive undertaking.

Trump estimated that the project will cost around 175 billion US dollars and said that 25 billion US dollars in the defense financing package next year.

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Trump denied the endeavor as “very important for success and even the survival of our country”.

“It's an evil world out there,” he said.

Trump also said that Canada “called” and “wants to be part of it”.

For months, the President has said that he wants to create a rocket protection system for the United States that resembles Israel's iron dome.

Before the Congress in March, Trump spoke the congress “to” finance a state -of -the -art Golden Dome Shield to protect our homeland “.

He signed the creation of “The Iron Dome of America” ​​in January, days after taking office.

While Trump is still optimistic that the massive undertaking will be completed before his office, analysts have shown doubts as to whether a project with such scale can be created for the United States, a country more than 400 times larger than Israel.

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