The US president, Donald Trumpannounced on Tuesday, May 20 that the construction of the “golden dome“, which will serve to protect the country, will have an approximate cost of US $ 175 billion and is expected to be completed for the end of your mandate in 2029.
As indicated in a press conference with the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the draft Budget Law that he wants to see approved in Congress will contemplate an initial item of US $ 25 billion that serves to boost its development.
“I should be completely operational before my term ends, so we will have it ready in about three years. Once built you can intercept missiles Even if they are launched From other parts of the world and From space“The Republican leader said.
According to Trump, USA It will have “the best system ever built.” “We help Israel With yours and we were very successful. Now we have technology Much more advanced, which includes hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles, “he added.
The president announced in March, when he went to the joint session of the Congress, his intention to build this dome and asked legislators to “finance a Antimisile shield of the latest golden dome to protect the homeland, manufactured in USA“
In that first speech he referred to Iron Dome (iron dome in English) by Israel, but the project that launches USA.as stressed on Tuesday, it is more advanced.
The system Israeli It is responsible for intercepting and destroying short -range rockets and drones in populated areas with high precision and, according to some media, each intercepted missile costs the country about $ 50,000.
The CNN chain had advanced that the Congress Budget Office has estimated that USA. I could have to spend more than US $ 500 billion in 20 years to have one “golden dome“That works properly.
Trump He stressed that Canada He has asked to be part of the project. “It makes all the meaning and it will not be very difficult to do so, but they will pay its fair part,” he said about the involvement of his northern neighbor, with which he said they have not yet closed the economic details of their participation.
“I really wanted to arrive this day because it is essential for the success and even the survival of our country. We live in an evil world. So this greatly contributes to the survival of this great country,” added the Republican president.
Secretary Hegseth considered that the “enemies of the country” will pay close attention to the project.
“Our enemies, our adversaries, will pay close attention to this, just as they have paid attention to the president Trump From the first day. So he is defending the homeland, defending the American people. It will benefit my children, my grandchildren, all of us, “he said.
The Department of Defense He later spread a statement, signed by Hegseth himself, in which more details were offered about it, such as “golden dome“It will include interceptors and space sensors.
“While there are already some American spatial technologies, such as spatial sensors and aerial and antimile defense systems, all the systems that make up the architecture of the golden dome They must integrate perfectly. The golden dome It will be deployed in phases, prioritizing the defense where the threat is greater, “he specified.