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(NewsNation) — The $175 cardinal “Golden Dome for America” rocket defence system volition beryllium wholly American-made and volition utilize what President Donald Trump characterized arsenic unrivaled next-generation “super technology” to supply astir 100% extortion against rocket attacks from overseas adversaries.
Trump and different officials announced the program connected Tuesday and predicted that the defence strategy could beryllium afloat operational wrong the adjacent 3 years. A $25 cardinal archetypal concern successful the task is portion of Trump’s projected “one big, beauteous bill”.
Officials announced that respective U.S. states, including Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana and North Dakota, would person a manus successful constructing the “Golden Dome,” which is akin to the rocket defence strategy that is utilized successful Israel, but involves the usage of overmuch much precocious technology, Trump said.
The program comes months aft Trump signed an executive bid that proposed a cutting-edge rocket defence shield that astatine the clip was called "The Ironi Dome for America" that would beryllium designed to support the United States from the menace of overseas rocket attacks.
What types of rocket defence volition the Golden Dome include?
Trump said Tuesday the “state-of-the-art system” includes land, oversea and abstraction sensors and interceptors. Officials described the dome arsenic a layered defence strategy that volition statesman with ground-based interceptors that volition see exertion from subject defence companies specified arsenic Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
The “Golden Dome” volition beryllium integrated with the country’s existing defence capabilities and, by its completion, volition “be susceptible of intercepting missiles adjacent if they are launched from different sides of the satellite – adjacent if they are launched from space,” Trump said.
US President Donald Trump speaks successful the Oval Office of the White House connected Tuesday successful Washington, DC. Trump is expected to denote the Golden Dome rocket defence shield. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)“This is precise important to the occurrence and adjacent endurance of the country,” helium added.
Trump said that the defence strategy would see extortion against hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and precocious cruise missiles.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth characterized the defence strategy arsenic a game-changer and 1 that represents a generational concern successful securing the state and America.
“It’s a layered defence and truthful if you miss astatine 1 (level), you drawback astatine the next,” Hegseth said, adding the strategy volition trust connected integrated exertion susceptible of speaking to each other.
“Our enemies, our adversaries, are going to wage attraction to this.”
What states and companies volition beryllium progressive successful the Golden Dome project?
U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said that L3Harris, based successful Fort Wayne, volition beryllium progressive successful the gathering of abstraction satellites and that enactment would besides beryllium completed astatine Crane Air Force Base successful the confederate portion of the state.
Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan referred to his authorities arsenic the “cornerstone of rocket defense” erstwhile it comes to ground-based rocket interceptors, radar systems that way incoming systems. Fellow Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota announced that he, on with Sullivan and Banks, had precocious met with officials from U.S. companies that person a manus successful gathering the rocket defence system.
Trump did not specify what companies could beryllium progressive successful the gathering of the defence system, but Banks, the Indiana senator, said that “a lot” of American companies volition beryllium progressive successful the gathering of the "Golden Dome."
Sullivan described the plan arsenic being “open architecture that goes up into space” and said that caller defence companies would person a manus successful getting the task to its completion. But Trump and others who announced the program successful the Oval Office connected Tuesday expressed assurance that nary different rocket defence strategy successful the satellite would lucifer the 1 Trump hopes is afloat operational by the clip helium leaves office.
“Our exertion assemblage is caput and shoulders up of immoderate different spot successful the world,” Sullivan said.
