He President of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced on Tuesday “the Selection of an architecture“To develop your A desired anti -mysile shielda defense system that has baptized “Golden dome“That will combine Sensors, satellites and missile interceptors, including in spaceto protect the country from technologically advanced threats from adversaries such as China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.
In an appearance in the White House next to the Secretary of Defense, Pete HegsethTrump has said that he will initially allocate 25,000 million dollars For this project, whose total cost has estimated at 175,000 million. The calculations of the Congress Budget Office, however, are that they can arrive To amount to more than 800,000 million in the next 20 years, with more than 500,000 million only for spatial capabilities.
The 25,000 million announced today by Trump are an amount that the president, in a Moment of cuts, There was already included in the annual budget proposal that must still be approved For the Congress, where the general accounts have found at the time unusual but firm resistance of some Republicans, which has forced the president on Tuesday to go to Capitol Hill to press trying his approval, which is not guaranteed.
A tsar alert against “very capable adversaries”
Trump potential to cause an escalation in the career of weapons in space, has announced in the appearance the appointment as “zar” To supervise the development of the “golden dome” of the general Michael Guetlein.
The current number two of the strength of the space that the Republican established in his first term is a four -star general with experience in missile systems, acquisitions and emerging arms capabilities that in recent months has been making alarms on the “huge amount of threats“That they are emerging from adversaries.
This Tuesday, in the Oval Office, Guetlein has insisted on that idea that “The US adversaries have become very determined and trained to put the American territory at risk. “While we were concentrating on keeping peace abroad have Modernized its nuclear forces And they have built Balistic missiles able to carry several heads, missiles Hypersonic capable of attacking the US in an hour and traveling 10,000 kilometers per hour, cruise missiles that can dodge our radars and our defenses, submarines that can appear on our coasts and, worse, Space weapons”He said.
Lack of details
On January 27 Trump signed an executive order in which he asked to be presented with options for the defense system, which he has imagined in the style of the “iron dome” of Israel (In fact initially he was baptized “iron dome for the US”) but with much larger dimensions. Although the 60 -day deadline that Dio was already exceeded in March, three options were finally put on their table to develop architecture and the implementation plan and has chosen one of them, which according to US media is the intermediate one that was raised in extension and budget.
Although in this Tuesday, not all the details have been given, sources from the White House and other press information had advanced that It will combine programs that already exist from the Pentagon and other developing technologies, including sensors and space -based weapons that are still under development and have not been tested.
The Trump shield, as explained, for example AP, would combine land and spatial systems capable of detecting and intercepting missiles in the four phases of a potential attack: before a launch, at the early flight stage, half the flight or in the last minutes as they descend towards their goal.
According to sources from ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Trump has asked to Priority to complete the parts of the system that may be finished before your mandate is finished.
Bonanza for the private sector
The defense system raised by Trump raises a Bonanza potential for the private sectorand companies like Space X, de Elon Musk, Palantir y Anduril They have already submitted proposals directly to Hegseth, as the press has also advanced.
Those three companies, according to Reuters last month, are collaborating in a project to build a Satellite constellation, Between 400 and a thousand that would orbite the earth and that they would be able to follow hostile missiles and put them in the target, composing the so -called “custody layer”, which provides the sensor functions. According to the agency, there are Other great actors such as Boeing presenting proposals y More than 180 companies They have shown interest to the Pentagon in working on the project.
The relay of “The War of Galaxies” by Reagan
Trump’s dome arrives more than four decades after Ronald Reagan will present in 1983 are Strategic defense initiative, a program that quickly popularized as “the Galaxies War “ and that raised a missile shield to protect the US from intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Although that project was minimized and It was left without financing after the collapse of the Soviet Unionin six years he received 30,000 million dollars and is considered to planted the high defense technology seeds. “We will be completing the work that Reagan began 40 years ago, ending forever with the threat of missiles to the US territory, ”said Trump, who on Tuesday has declared that in his conversations with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with whom he spent for the last time on Monday, He has not addressed the development by Moscow of a space nuclear weapon. “We have not spoken it yet but At the right time we will talk about it“He said.
