Trump is building “Golden Cup”, a missile system the world has never seen before

Slates, labelled “Go quickly, think to the wide scale of”, it was introduced to 3,000 defence contractors in Huntsville, Alabama last week and discover the unprecedented complexity of the system, which faces an ambitious 2028 deadline set by US President Donald Trump.

The system is estimated to cost $175 billion, but the slides show that uncertainties still lie on the basic architecture of the project because the number of launchers, interceptors, land stations and missile sites needed for the system has not been determined yet.

“They have a lot of money, but they don't have a target of how much it still costs”, an American official said.

So far, Congress has allocated $25 billion to Golden Dome in the Tax and Expensive Trump Bill adopted in July.

Another $4.3 billion has been earmarked for Golden Dome in his request for the 2026 presidential budget.

Thought of as a multitribal missile shield for the United States, Golden Dome is inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, but it is evidently greater because of geography that will have to protect and complexity due to various threats he will face.

According to slides, the system's architecture consists of four integrated layers: a layer of space-based sensor and target for warning and tracking missiles, as well as “protection from missiles” and three layer of land-based interceptor missiles, radar groups and potentially lasers.

A surprise was a new field of rockets apparently in Midwest according to a map included in the presentation ♫ for future generation interceptors (NGI) that were produced by Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), and would be part of the upper “rest” along with the Supreme Terminal Protection System Aegis (THAAD), which is also produced by Lockheed, Television reports. Periscope.

NGI is the modernised missile for radar network, interceptors and other Earth Middle Defence devices (GMD) currently the main shield of missile defence to protect the United States from intercstatic ballistic missiles from fraudulent states.

The US operates GMD launching sites in southern California and Alaska. This plan would add a third seat in Midwest to counter additional threats.
Other technical obstacles identifying slides included the delay of communication throughout “the kill” systems. Contractors like Lockheed, Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), RTX and Boeing (BA.N) have a range of missile defence systems.

It is noteworthy that the slides did not mention Elon Musk's SpaceX, which was part of a bid for the Golden Dome contract, along with the software producer Palatrir (PLTR.O), and the producer of Anduril defense systems.

The Pentagon said it is collecting information “from industry, academy, national labs and other government agencies for support of Golden Dome”, but it would be the reckless “” to publish more information on a programme in these early stages.

A key goal for Golden Dome is to bring down targets during their <x0phasis of growth”, slow and predictable climb through the Earth's atmosphere of a rocket. Rather, it seeks to establish interceptaries of space that can soon intercept the opening missiles.

The presentation stressed that the United States “has built both interceptors and re-entry vehicles”, but they have never built a vehicle that can withstand the heat of re-entry while targeting an enemy missile.

The last line of defence called “is under” and “The Protection of the Limited Zone” will include new radar and current systems such as the Patriot missile defence system and a new “joint” that will issue current and future interceptors against all types of threats.

These modular and mobile systems will be designed to minimize addiction from prepared places, allowing quick deployment in many theaters.

Space Force General Michael Guetley confirmed last month to lead the Golden Dome project, has 30 days of his confirmation on July 17th to build a team, another 60 days to offer an initial design of the system and 120 days to present a full implementation plan, including satellite and ground station details, informed people on a memo signed by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told Reuters. /Periscope/