The day after the start of the presidency in January 2025 president Donald Trump released Order to make a strategy to capture enemy ballistic, hypersonic and maneuvering missiles. The president calls him the Golden Dome. The task is partially inspired by Israeli success Iron DomeTel Aviv tested in the war against the Palestinians.
The success of the Israeli strategy stems from the prosaic fact that Hamas will not fire a rocket more than 100 kilometres from the target, and that Israel is simply a tiny state. The strategy promised by Trump may, however, exceed the current capabilities of technology, especially since any sensors and interceptors are to be placed in space.
The Golden Dome is of course a 100 times better than the Iron. The choice of the name is not random – there have long been rumors that the owner of Trump Tower has gold toilet shells in his apartment. His thought of protecting the U.S. from the attack is to be more than a defence system; he is to be – Trump announces – a work of art.
Projects of a akin strategy had already emerged in the early 1980s, erstwhile another Republican president, Ronald Reagan, began working on the alleged strategical Defence Initiative, then called Star Wars. In 1987, at the end of the Cold War, Lawrence Livermore National laboratory in California prepared a task called superb Pebbles, which predicted the placement of a ballistic rocket strategy in space.
According to any experts, the defence from outer space, which is expected to defend America from the attack from the another end of the world, is the biggest scam in the past of the American Department of Defense, and its real goal is to be space money for the arms industry. Surprise: billions of dollars won't be taken by anyone else like Elon Musk.
The Golden Dome is expected to function even before Trump's presidency ends, which is in 3 years. Of course, it's completely unrealistic. The Act Trump Talks About Big Beautiful Bill and who has already successfully passed through the home of Representatives, after which she went to the Senate, is intended to allocate the first $25 billion to start work.
Announcing the space strategy task on May 20, the president announced that the full cost of its construction would be $175 billion, but the budget office at legislature estimates that the Golden Dome will cost as much as $831 billion over the next 20 years. Each interceptor rocket costs about half a million dollars.
Currently, the largest possible threat to the US is intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons from China and Russia, as well as the atomic possible of North Korea and Iran. The Golden Dome is to be the first strategy to send American weapons into space. It is to detect and destruct enemy missiles even before the attack itself, capture them in the early phase of flight, and even at the last minute before reaching the target. Next generation technologies will be utilized on earth, in oceans and in space, where sensors and interceptors are to be installed. This is not over, due to the fact that there are besides offensive weapons in space. And this most likely means an global race that will lead to the militarization of space (not to mention its sulking).
The Golden Dome is another thought taken from Project 2025, prepared by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. According to the authors, the success of SpaceX Elona Musk and its telecommunications satellite strategy Starlink is proof that thousands of satellites, sensors and military devices can be installed in space. The construction of the full strategy is to be commanded by Trump during his first word of office (2016–2020) by the Space Force, a “space force” that is part of the American Armed Forces.
As in America, the military will request private contractors – and here the work will most likely be distributed between 3 companies, all with Trump's supporters in the lead – SpaceX, Palantir (software) and Anduril, who produces drones and AI systems. Reuters reports that for the first Musk task itself would have taken six to 9 billion dollars, with satellites belonging to Musk, and the American government would rent them, which means paying Musk all year for their readiness. Participating in building the Golden Dome will aid SpaceX research and test its products in space, so it's not a bad bite for Musk. He'd get a large part of the first $25 billion if Big Beautiful Bill He'll get the legislature approval.
This is an ethical problem. The government usually sets out public procurement tenders, but since Musk plays an crucial function in government, virtually no 1 in the armed forces will argue him. I don't think the Department of defence will have any scruples either. Let us remind you that the secretary of defence is Trump's unqualified butthole Pete Hegseth – this fool who posted a detailed plan for the attack on Yemen on the Signal platform, and a journalist, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was accidentally invited to the chat. So you shouldn't anticipate any revelations from him.
The construction of the strategy puts America ahead of a number of possible problems. The most apparent is the pace of work imposed by Trump, which can lead to errors and the creation of faulty structures. Capture missiles have orbit at the edge of the atmosphereAnd this constant movement will make only a tiny part of them find the right place to prevent the attack. Hence the request to install a immense number of them (hundreds of thousands) so that they can actually respond to the attack.
Scientists indicate that the Golden Dome will be easy to destabilize by firing a immense number of enemy missiles at the same time. Another problem is Canada's consent to participate in the task so that America can respond to Russia or China's attack from beyond the horizon, from the north. Canada has so far expressed a possible interest in participation in the system, but, as we know, relations between these countries are not peculiarly friendly present since Trump announced that Canada should become the 51st state of America.
In mid-May Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana announced the establishment of the Golden Dome Club in the Senate, comparing the task to the Apollo Space Program or the Manhattan Project. "This task will require much closer cooperation between the granting funds, the Department of Defence, legislators and industry," Sheehy said.
The Golden Dome, which is to cover 43 million square kilometres, may be 1 of the most costly defence initiatives in US history. specified extravagance will surely not aid to reduce the budget spending that all Republican president and Trump, including, promises to severely reduce their voters.
Both China and Russia assessed Trump's task negatively, claiming that this leads to an arms race as well as during the Cold War. China has besides stated that they are already able to circumvent specified a defence system.
