Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" defense system is a plan that will face technical and financial hurdles, and could increase global insecurity, experts say.

President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome, on May 20, 2025. The system is intended to protect the United States from ballistic, cruise and ...

US needs to upgrade missile defense before it's too late. We can deploy 2,000 linked satellite interceptors at roughly the same or lower cost as the price for part of today’s system.

President Donald Trump has laid out new details of his ambitious plan to build a “Golden Dome” missile system to protect the United States from foreign attacks, saying it will be complete ...

President Donald Trump picked a design for his Golden Dome missile defense system and named a leader of the ambitious $175 billion defense program.. The program, first ordered by Trump in January ...

Trump said during the White House gathering this week that his Golden Dome would take only three years to complete, be "very close to 100%" effective, and cost only $175 billion.

With the Golden Dome, success will require more. Unlike SDI, the U.S. will have to actually develop, deploy and demonstrate the system’s ability to deter.

One part of Golden Dome will involve targeting ballistic missiles during their boost phase. US Air Force. However, there are big questions over the technical feasibility of targeting ballistic ...

How Long Will It Take To Construct The Golden Dome? About three years, according to Trump. However, the cost of the project will be absorbed over 20 years, according to multiple outlets .

The U.S. is 400 times larger than Israel, which raises questions about the Golden Dome’s technical feasibility, as well as its cost, which could easily run into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza on Oct. 11, 2023. (Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images) In a bit of verbal alchemy, the Pentagon is turning iron into gold ...

But where that project delivered a functional weapon in just a few years, The Golden Dome faces far more complicated technical, financial, and strategic hurdles.