Trump's 'next-generation' missile defense plan gains momentum as US faces foreign threats

House Republicans person formed their ain Golden Dome Caucus arsenic President Donald Trump continues to propulsion for a nationwide rocket defence system.

Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., and Rep. Dale Strong, R-Ala., launched the caucus to beryllium an "educational clearinghouse" arsenic the argumentation effort for the dome kicks off.

"Golden Dome volition lone beryllium palmy if we conscionable President Trump's timeline," Crank said successful a connection Tuesday. "This means that is imperative that we, members and stakeholders, are good informed and moving unneurotic to revolutionize rocket defence of our large nation."

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President Trump has hinted helium volition motion an enforcement bid authorizing an Iron Dome-like project. (Reuters)

According to a quality release, it volition enactment with the Senate Golden Dome Caucus founded past period by Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont.

"President Trump has artfully highlighted the captious request for a next-generation rocket defence shield to support the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, precocious cruise missiles and different aerial attacks. With nuclear-capable adversaries crossed the globe, we can’t spend for this imaginativeness to not go a reality," Strong said. 

"North Alabama has played a relation successful each erstwhile and existent U.S. rocket defence programme and stands acceptable erstwhile again to conscionable this urgent need."

Trump signed an enforcement bid successful January ordering the task but formally announced the effort successful May, which was partially inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome.

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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile strategy intercepts rockets, arsenic seen from Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

"Within the past 4 decades, our adversaries person developed much precocious and lethal long-range weapons than ever before, including ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles susceptible of striking the homeland with either accepted oregon atomic warheads," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said successful a connection May 20.

"Golden Dome is designed to leverage immoderate past investments but volition besides usage next-generation exertion to support against the evolving and analyzable menace landscape," 

President Ronald Reagan projected a akin program, known arsenic the Strategic Defense Imitative, successful 1983. The dome has a starting projected outgo of $175 billion, and $25 cardinal is allocated done the projected reconciliation measure successful Congress, but immoderate estimates amusement a higher figure.

"This is precise important for the occurrence and adjacent endurance of our country. It’s an evil satellite retired there," Trump said during an Oval Office lawsuit astir the Golden Dome successful May.

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Digitized conception plan of Golden Dome  (Lockheed Martin)

Fox News Digital antecedently reported that Russia, China and North Korea mocked the Golden Dome transportation from Trump.

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"The task volition heighten the hazard of turning abstraction into a warfare portion and creating a abstraction arms contention and shingle the planetary information and arms power system," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said past month.