What is the Golden Dome defense system that Trump has announced? | Conflict news

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday that he selected a design of $ 175 billion for the multi -layered program for the defense of Golden Dome rockets in order to counteract the air threats “even if they are started from space”.

As part of the project, the United States would use rocket catching underwear in space to protect itself against ballistic and hypersonal threats.

Here is more about the Golden Dome project.

What has Trump announced?

Trump announced 25 billion US dollars on Tuesday on Tuesday to the first financing of the project, which will cost $ 175 billion and will be completed by the end of his current term in 2029.

“As soon as the golden dome is completely constructed, it can intercept rockets, even if it is started from other sides of the world, and even if they are started from space,” said Trump.

“This is very important for the success and even the survival of our country.”

Trump also announced that General Michael Guetlein would be the main program manager of the Us Space Force, who is responsible for monitoring the progress of the project.

“I promised to the American people that I would build a state -of -the -art rocket protection shield to protect our home from threats from foreign missile attacks,” said Trump.

Trump also announced: “Canada called us and they want to be part of it. So we will speak to them.”

What is the Golden Dome project?

Trump said that the golden dome had been defeated “to defeat hyperschallrakets, ballistic rockets and advanced cruise rocks”, and added that the program would have room -based interceptors and sensors.

Pentagon boss Pete Hegseth, who spoke next to Trump, said the system aimed at “protecting the home from cruise rockets, ballistic rockets, hyperschallraken, drone, regardless of whether they are conventional or nuclear”.

The announcement is made just a few months after January 27, when Trump signed an executive order to “immediately start building a state-of-the-art iron rocket defense sign of the Iron Dome rockets that can protect the Americans”.

The iron dome is Israel's rocket defense system, which recognizes an incoming rocket, determines its way and intercepts it. The development of the system was financed by a scholarship from the United States.

Trump said existing defense skills are used in the construction of the project and predicted that the total costs would be around $ 175 billion.

The White House has not yet published any further details about the project. While Trump said that the system would be developed in the United States, he has not named which companies will participate in.

Ronald Reagan, the Republican US President from 1981 to 1989, was planned for the first time a space defense system. In the middle of the Cold War, Reagan proposed a barrier for nuclear weapons, which included space technology as part of his strategic defense initiative or the Star Wars project.

“We will really complete the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago and ended the rocket threat to the American homeland,” said Trump on Tuesday.

Is the Golden Dome plan feasible?

Industry experts have questioned the schedule and budget of the plan.

The financing of the golden dome has not yet been secured. At the press conference on Tuesday, Trump confirmed that he was aiming for $ 25 billion in a tax cut for the system in a draft law that was currently moving by the congress, although this amount could be reduced in the ongoing negotiations.

In addition, a certain variation is expected in the total costs of the project. The Associated Press quoted an unnamed government official with the statement that Trump received three versions of the plan, which were called “medium”, “high” and “extra high”. These versions correspond to the number of satellites, sensors and interceptors that are placed in the room. AP reported that Trump had selected the “high” version that has an initial cost between USD $ 30 and $ 100 billion.

“The new data point is the 175 billion US dollars, but the question remains in what period. It is probably 10 years,” said Tom Karako, a senior scholarship holder of the defense and security department of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIs), to the News Agency's News.

On May 1, 42 Democratic members of the US Congress signed a letter in which the possible participation of Elon Musk's SpaceX, which is one of the top technology companies, who would like to build important components of the Golden Dome.

“If Mr. Musk had an inappropriate influence on the Golden Dome Treaty, it would be another example of a disturbing pattern of Mr. Musk's conflict of interest,” says the letter.

How did China and Russia – the largest competitors in the United States – react?

The USA see a growing threat from China and Russia, its main opponents.

In the past few decades, China has advanced its ballistic and hyperspictive rocket technology, while Moscow has one of the world's most advanced intercontinental range in the world. Russia and the United States have accumulated the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads worldwide.

The threat of drones has also grown under technological advances.

China condemned the Golden Dome as a threat to international security and accused the United States of arranging a arms race.

“The United States put their own interests first and are obsessed with their own absolute security, which violates the principle that a country's security should go at the expense of others,” said Mao Ning, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, on a regular briefing.

“(The plan) increases the risk that the room will become a battlefield, operate a arms race and undermine international security,” he said.

The Kremlin said that the Golden Dome Missile Shield plan was a “sovereign matter” for the United States.

“This is a sovereign matter for the United States. If the United States believe that there is a rocket threat, it will of course develop a rocket defense system,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, including AFP on Wednesday.

“All countries do that,” he added.

“Of course, the course of events requires the resumption of contacts to restore strategic stability,” he said.