Donald Trump has revealed plans for a high -tech missile defense system, which the president claims to be working by the end of his term in his position.
The future concept announced by Trump will see the American weapons placed in space for the first time ever.
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Trump had already indicated his intention to create a golden dome after returning to the White House, describing the missile attacks “the most catastrophic threat facing the United States.”
This idea is designed on the Israeli Iron Dome defense system, which uses the radar to detect incoming missiles and is calculated by any of them pose a threat to populated areas.
But the golden dome will be a larger project without limits, not the least of it because US More than 400 times greater than Israel.
During his announcement in the Oval Office yesterday, Trump said that his new golden dome “will be” able to intercept missiles even if it was launched from the other side of the world.
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While an initial amount of $ 25 billion has been allocated to the project, officials believe that it will cost much more over the coming decades.
Trump said he would cost about $ 175 billion in total during his announcement yesterday.
But one of the estimates from the Congress Budget Office has space -based components alone cost $ 542 billion on the next 20 years.
Trump also claimed that Canada “called us and wanted to be part of it.”
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair admitted the interest of his country during a visit to Washington earlier this year, saying that Ottawa's participation was “logical.”
The golden dome will be designed to take over a wide range of missile threats to the United States, including the relevant air -torn missile missiles faster than the speed of sound.
It also aims to protect America from fracture orbital bombing systems, which offer a space bombing.
“They will all be expelled from the air,” Trump said, claiming that the success rate is “very close to 100 %.”
The missile defense system aims to stop the warheads at any stage of its deployment, by launching while they are in the air.
Pentagon officials have long appeared a stimulant that has not accompanied the current defense systems with the new missile technology developed by Russia and China.
China has about 400 ballistic intercontinental missiles and Russia He has 350, according to the evaluation of the Defense Intelligence Agency last week.
Trump signed an executive order shortly after returning to the Office of Requesting Specifications for “missile defense shield from the next generation”.
He said: “There is no really current system.
“We have certain areas of missiles and some missile defense, but there is no system … there was nothing like that.”
Trump wants the golden dome by the end of his term, which ends in January 2029.
However, US Air Force Minister Troy Munik told the members of the Senate that the project “is still in the conceptual phase.”
General Fores Fores Michael Getlin, Vice President of Space Operations, was dedicated to overseeing his development.
Space weapons “representing” space weapons “representing new and emerging requirements for the missions that military space organizations have not accomplished before.”
Several sources told CNN that the complex task of building a missile shield will need a network of government agencies and private contractors.
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