News India Live, Digital Desk: President Donald Trump has announced his intended concept for his future Golden Dome missile defense program – it is a multi -layered, 175 billion US dollars system that will first bring American weapons into space.
Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said that he hoped that the system “will” start completely before the end of my tenure “, which is ending in 2029, and will have the ability to stop missiles” even though they were launched from space. ” An American official, familiar to the program, said that it is more likely that by that time this complex system may have some initial capacity.
Trump was sitting next to a poster with golden colored and artistic depiction of missile barriers to continental America, also announced that General Michael Gutelleen, who is currently working as Deputy Principal of Space Operations, would be responsible for overseeing the progress of the Golden Dome.
The Golden Dome has a hypothesis to include ground and space -based capabilities, which are capable of detecting and preventing missiles in all four major stages of a possible attack: detecting and destroying them before launch, destroying them, stopping them in the early stages of flight, stopping them in the air, or stopping them in the last minutes when landing towards the target.
Pentagon planner options have been developing for the past several months – which the American official has described medium, high and “additional high” options based on cost – including space -based interceptors. The officer explained in detail about the schemes that have not been made public on the condition of anonymity.
The difference between the three versions is primarily based on how many satellites and sensors-and for the first time, space-based interceptors-will be purchased.
The Congress budget office has estimated this month that the Space-based components of Golden Dome may cost up to US $ 542 billion in the next 20 years. Trump has requested the initial 25 billion US dollars for the program in his proposed tax exemption bill, which is now going to the Congress.
The Pentagon has over the years that the latest missiles developed by China and Russia are so advanced that updated counterparts are essential.
In addition to the Golden Dome, satellite and interceptor – on which a large part of the cost of the program will cost – will focus on those advanced missiles at the beginning or in the middle of the flight.
In a hearing on Tuesday, the head of the US Space Force, Chance Saltzman, told MPs that the space-based weapons for Golden Dome “represent new and emerging requirements for missions that have never been met before before military space organizations.”
China and Russia have installed aggressive weapons in space, such as satellites with ability to deactivate important American satellites, which can make the US sensitive to the attack.
Last year, the United States said that Russia is developing a space-based nuclear weapon, which could remain in space for a long time, and then explode and destroy the satellites around it.
Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he has not yet talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Golden Dome program, “But we will talk about it at the right time.”
In a joint statement earlier this month, China and Russia described the idea of Golden Dome as “very unstable in nature”, warned that it would “turn the outer space into the field of armed atmosphere and armed conflict.” There is no money for the project yet, and the Golden Dome overall “Still is still in the ideological phase”, newly appointed Air Force Secretary Troy Mink told the senators during a hearing on Tuesday.
Although the President has chosen the concept as per his will, the Pentagon is still engaged in developing the requirements that will have to meet the Golden Dome – which is not a common way to develop new systems.
The US official said the Pentagon and the American Northern Command are still working on the format known as an initial capacity document. Similarly, the Northern Command, which is responsible for protecting the motherland, recognizes which work it will need this system.
The US already has several missile defense capabilities, such as Patriot missile batteries, which the US has provided to Ukraine to protect the upcoming missiles, as well as a range of satellites in the classroom to detect missile projections. Some of these existing systems will be included in the Golden Dome.
Trump issued an executive order during the first week of his President’s tenure, directing the Pentagon to search for a space -based interceptor.
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