Trump reveals plans for the “Golden Dome” rocket defense system

The United States has selected a design for the futuristic “Golden Dome” rocket defense system, says US President Donald Trump and adds that it will be in operation until the end of his term.

Just a few days after his return to the White House in January, Trump presented his intentions to the system and aimed to counter the USA, including ballistic and cruise rockets, “the next generation” of the next generation.

A first sum of USD 25 billion (18.7 billion GBP) was planned in a new budget bill – although the government has estimated that it will be much more than the costs for decades.

Officials warn that existing systems have not kept pace with increasingly demanding weapons of potential opponents.

President Trump also announced that Generalmicher Michael Guetlein will monitor the project's project. Gen Guetlein is currently Vice Chef of Space Operations at Space Force.

Seven days after his second administration, Trump ordered the Ministry of Defense to submit plans for a system that would deter and defend against air strikes, which the White House said “the most catastrophic threat” for the United States.

On Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump said that the system would consist of “next generation technologies” in the country, sea and space, including room -based sensors and interceptors. He added that Canada asked to be part of the system.

During a visit to Washington at the beginning of this year, the then Canadian Minister of Defense, Bill Blair, admitted that Canada was involved in the Dome project, and argued that it was “made sense” and in the “national interest” of the country.

He added that “Canada needs to know what is going on in the region” and must be aware of the incoming threats, also in the Arctic.

Trump added that the system would “even be able to intercept rockets that started from the other side of the world or started from space”.

The system is partly inspired by Israel's iron dome with which the country has intercept rockets and rockets since 2011.

However, the golden dome would be many times larger and designed to combat a wider selection of threats, including hyper -sound weapons that can move faster than the speed of sound and fractional orbital bombing systems – also called fobs – that could deliver explosive heads from space.

“All of them are thrown out of the air,” said Trump. “The success rate is very close to 100%.”

US officials had previously said that the Golden Dome will have the goal of enabling the United States to stop the rockets in different phases of their use, even before the start and while they are still in the air.

The many aspects of the system will fall under a central command, said US defense officers.

Trump said on Tuesday that the program would require an initial investment of $ 25 billion with total costs of $ 175 billion over time. The initial $ 25 billion were identified in its only large, beautiful, beautiful bill on taxes that has not yet been adopted.

However, the Congress budget office estimated that the government alone could spend more, up to $ 542 billion over the age of 20, solely in the space parts of the system.

Pentagon officials have long had with the fact that existing systems have not kept pace with the new rocket technology of Russia and China.

“There is really no current system,” said Trump on Tuesday in the Oval Office. “We have certain areas of rockets and certain rocket defense, but there is no system … there has never been anything like that.”

In a briefing document recently published by the Defense Intelligence Agency, it was found that the rocket threats “expand in scale and sophistication”, with China and Russia actively designing the systems “to use gaps in the USA”.