Trump’s “golden dome” defense plan includes space missiles, lasers: report

The plans shared with defense entrepreneurs also show a new missile field in the American Midwest, according to the report.

The administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, broadcast plans for his “Golden Dome” anti-missile defense system of $ 175 billion, revealing a new possible missile field in the Midwest and the details of the project plans to shoot down the missiles in space, reports the Reuters news agency.

According to a series of slides, entitled “Go quickly, think big!”, Presented at some 3,000 defense entrepreneurs in Huntsville, in Alabama, last week, Reuters says that the plans for the Golden Dome include three layers of missile interceptors, radar networks and lasers, in addition to its spatial defenses.

While the presentation stressed that the United States “has built both interceptors and back-to-school vehicles” for the interception of space missiles before, the plans also recognized that the United States had never built a vehicle that can manage the heat of the start of the school year while targeting an enemy missile, according to Reuters.

Trump estimated that his golden dome could cost $ 175 billion.

So far, the congress has assigned $ 25 billion for the system in the president tax and expenses spent in July. Another $ 45.3 billion is reserved for the Golden Dome in Trump’s presidential budget demand in 2026.

“They have a lot of money, but they do not yet have what it costs,” said an American official quoted by Reuters.

The dome plans included a card showing that a new large -scale missile field, with systems built by Lockheed Martin, could be located in the American Midwest, Reuters reported.

The site would be added to two similar missile fields that already exist In South California and Alaska.

Lockheed Martin described the golden dome as “a defense system that protects America from air threats, hypersonic missiles and unrivaled drone and precision swarms”.

“Thanks to the vision of President Trump, Golden Dome will make a reality, guaranteeing our future,” wrote Lockheed Martin in an article on social networks in March.

Reuters said that the slides did not include any reference to Elon Musk SpaceX, which was part of an offer for the Golden Dome contracts, alongside the Palantir software manufacturer and the manufacturer of defense systems Andundil.

Trump campaigned on the construction of “an anti -missile defense shield in our country”, in the contribution of the 2024 presidential election. During a previous campaign event in July 2024, Trump compared his plans with Iron dome of Israel.

The Iron Dome is the anti -missile defense system of Israel, which detects an incoming rocket, determines its path and intercepts it. The system has been developed with more than $ 1 billion in United States funding.

Days after taking office on January 27, Trump signed a executive decree “Immediately start the construction of an advanced technology anti -missile defense shield, which will be able to protect Americans.”

Although Trump obtained $ 25 billion for the system in his tax and expenses, which also included Important cuts Federal funding for other programs, including Medicaid, the project is still faced with a significant funding deficit.

Trump suggested in May that the deficit could be partly invented by Canada paying $ 61 billion towards the project.