Donald Trump says $175bn ‘Golden Dome’ will be completed during his term

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Donald Trump put a price of $ 175 billion on the development of a “golden dome” missile shield, and promised that the project would be “operational” by the end of his term.

The US President said in a declaration from the Oval Office, that the alleged golden dome-which is called the famous “Israel” “Iron Dome” that protects Israel-will be completed in two and a half to three years. He added that the tax and budget bill before congress includes $ 25 billion “to help running in construction.”

Trump also said that Canada “called us, and they want to be part of it” and “they have protection” too. “We will work with them on prices.”

The president put the Golden Dome project in the first week of his second term, with executive order calling for the most ambitious missile shield in the history of the United States: one can destroy the super rockets and prevent nuclear extermination.

Surrounded by Defense Minister Beit Higseth, and many US Senate and American Space Forces, Michael Gitolin, who will lead the project, Trump said on Tuesday that the golden dome “will publish the techniques of the next generation across Earth, sea and space, including space -based sensors and objections.”

But those intersections – a network of satellites, some of which are equipped with laser – to detect, intercept and destroy ballistic nuclear nuclear missiles, require technology that does not exist yet. Looking at unprofitable technology, there are huge obstacles in front of Golden Dome, which resembles the Ronald Regan program so -called Star Wars since the 1980s.

“Ronald Reagan wanted this several years ago, but they hadn’t had technology,” Trump said. “Once it is completely created, the golden dome will be able to intercept the missiles even if it is launched from other aspects of the world, and even if it is launched from space.”

He talked about the importance of Silicon Valley to achieve its vision. “We have things that no one else can get,” Trump said. “Tell me a very big opponent,” the most wonderful people in the world are the Silicon Valley. “

The latest technology players such as Elon Musk’s Spacex, Anduil and Palantir are expected to participate in the golden dome alongside old defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin and RTX.

Airlines and defense companies are already preparing to fight for new dollars. Lockheed has created a web page that announces its willingness to this “Manhattan mission on the project scale”, referring to the World War II’s reign program to develop the atomic bomb. So far, there are no agreements with specific companies.

Trump was confident that Congress would continue to finance the golden dome as it development: “It is amazing how easy this is.”

However, the project can easily exceed $ 175 billion. Non -party Congress budget office estimated that the development and launch of space -based objectives could cost up to $ 542 billion over 20 years.

Last week, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued an assessment of threats that clarify the types of attacks that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea could fire with advanced missiles aimed at the Golden Dome to protect.

Meanwhile, Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have raised conflicts of interests about Spacex’s potential participation in the project that gave the role of musk in the Trump administration.

A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers, led by Warren, requested the best monitoring of the Ministry of Defense earlier this month to “conduct a review of the Pentagon operation to grant the” Golden Dome “missile defense, including any participation by Elon Musk in that process” because his company is “a better competitor for the Dome Golden contract because of the MUK position in the position in the government.”