Trump reveals plans for a missile defense system at Golden Dome

The US has chosen a design for the futuristic missile defense system Gold Dome, says US President Donald Trump, adding that it will work by the end of its time to service.

Just days after his return to the White House in January, Trump revealed his intentions for the system aimed at counteracting “next -generation air threats” for the United States, including ballistic and cruise missiles.

The initial amount of $ 25 billion ($ 18.7 billion) was set aside in a new budget bill – although the government estimated it would ultimately cost much more than for decades.

Officials warn that existing systems are not up -to -date with increasingly complex weapons owned by potential opponents.

President Trump has also announced that Space Forces General Michael Guetlein will monitor the project. Gen Guetlein is currently the deputy chief of Space Force Space Operations.

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

Speaking at the oval office on Tuesday, Trump said the system would consist of next -generation technology in land, sea and space, including space sensors and interceptors. He added that Canada had asked to be part of the system.

During a visit to Washington earlier this year, the then Canadian Minister of Defense Bill Blair admitted that Canada was interested in participating in the Dome project, arguing that it “makes sense” and was in the “national interest” of the country.

He added that “Canada needs to know what is happening in the region” and be aware of the incoming threats, including the Arctic.

Trump added that the system would be “even capable of crossing rockets launched from the other side of the world, or launched from space.”

The system is partly inspired by the Israeli Iron Dome, which the country has used to capture rockets and missiles since 2011.

However, the Golden Dome would be many times larger and designed to fight a wider spectrum of threats, including hypersonic weapons capable of moving faster than the speed of sound and fractional orbital bombing -also called FOBS -which can supply warheads from space.

“They will all be killed on the air,” Trump said. “The degree of success is very close to 100%.”

Earlier, US officials said that the Golden Dome would aim to allow the US to stop missiles at different stages of their deployment, including before they were firing and still in the air.

The many aspects of the system will fall under a centralized command, US Defense officials said.

Trump said on Tuesday that the program would require an initial investment of $ 25 billion, with a total price of $ 175 billion in time. The original $ 25 billion was identified within his large beautiful tax account that has not yet been accepted.

However, the Congress Budget Office has considered that the government can ultimately spend more to $ 542 billion in 20 years, only in the space parts of the system.

Pentagon officials have long been taken that existing systems are not up to date with new rocket technologies designed by Russia and China.

“There really is no current system,” Trump said in an oval office on Tuesday. “We have certain areas of rockets and a certain missile defense, but there is no system … There has never been anything like this.”

A briefing document, recently published by the Defense Intelligence Agency, noted that rocket threats “will” expand on scale and improvement “, with China and Russia actively designing systems to use US defense gaps.