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Trump's 'Golden Dome' will need Manhattan Project-scale whole-of-government effort, Space Force general warns
Fox News ^ | March 6 2025 | Morgan Phillips

Posted on 03/07/2025 7:11:41 PM PST by buwaya

President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space Force general.

"This is on the order of magnitude of Manhattan Project, and it’s going to take concerted effort from the very top of our government. It's going to take a national will to bring all this together," Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, told a gathering of defense industry experts on Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War
KEYWORDS: alreadybankrupt; antimissile; bankrupt; cancelsocialsecurity; dome; fakenews; golden; onlymoney; printingpresses; stopmedicare; tds
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This is a reasonable take. Its a massive engineering project. Whatever heavy lift SpaceX can add for the surveillance system, thats not the principal issue.
1 posted on 03/07/2025 7:11:42 PM PST by buwaya
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To: buwaya

Israel was able to do it. But Israel is only the size of NJ.

The USA is nearly 500 times the size of Israel !

Think of the scale and the Geography we have to cover. From Hawaii to Alaska to the East Coast.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 7:16:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: buwaya

I’d rather spend money on this than:

CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4302887/posts


3 posted on 03/07/2025 7:18:15 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: buwaya

Does “Whole of Government” include USAID?


4 posted on 03/07/2025 7:20:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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To: Indy Pendance

$600,000 to simply write “Men do not menstruate”


5 posted on 03/07/2025 7:22:59 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: buwaya

I’m not worried about ballistic missiles raining down on the country. I’m worried about a tramp steamer carrying a dirty bomb sliding into one of our ports.

Perhaps that’s where we should be focusing our defensive efforts.

But then again, I’m not a Space Force general, or a general of any kind. So maybe I’m missing something here.


6 posted on 03/07/2025 7:23:29 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Indy Pendance

“I’d rather spend money on this than:

CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study “menstrual cycles in transgender men”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4302887/posts

I would rather spend money on this than money defending Europe.


7 posted on 03/07/2025 7:25:50 PM PST by MNDude
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To: SeekAndFind
Think of the scale and the Geography we have to cover. From Hawaii to Alaska to the East Coast.

It's like covering Russia with the Iron Dome.

Not feasible. Maybe in a couple of decades.

8 posted on 03/07/2025 7:26:10 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

Israel also didn’t have to deal with fast movers that might get thrown at the US in quantity.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 7:29:13 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Leaning Right

If you look at potential damage, 1000 Russian ICBM’s are a way bigger threat than one tramp steamer. The steamer can wreck a city. The 1000 ICBMS can destroy absolutely everything.


10 posted on 03/07/2025 7:31:18 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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“From Hawaii to Alaska”

Forget Hawaii, it’s a lost cause. Tell Alaska we’ll consider including them when they get rid of Murkowski.


11 posted on 03/07/2025 7:33:27 PM PST by Usually_Disappointed (This space for rent.)
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To: buwaya

Building a missile shield is far more of an investment in our national security than the 200 billion we squandered in a senseless war.

About the only worthwhile thing that came for the Ukraine war are war porn go-cam videos from every soldier that straps a camwra to the head and chest.


12 posted on 03/07/2025 7:36:43 PM PST by Red6
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How we could afford Golden Dome alongside LGM-35A Sentinel (replacement for the current Minuteman III ICBM), Columbia-Class SSBN, NGAD, new Ford-class aircraft carriers, F-35 upgrades, B-21 Raider and all the rest?


13 posted on 03/07/2025 7:46:22 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: buwaya

Quantity of incoming is a major problem, also the current cost of such a defense. This is why the THAAD system is oriented to defend an area us could represent a military base, or a single city.

A system of satellites could defend a large area. It would need to be immense in number to cover the planet and also defend a large number of incoming missiles.

We also need to address other delivery vehicles and drones.

A very big deal.


14 posted on 03/07/2025 7:46:42 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: steve86

No idea. Take it up with Secty Hegseth.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 7:47:31 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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> 1000 Russian ICBM’s are a way bigger threat than one tramp steamer. <

Agreed. But as I see it, the chances are greater that we’ll be attacked by that tramp steamer than by Russia.

Russia knows that if they send ICBM’s at us, they’ll get the same in return. But where did that tramp steamer come from? North Korea? Iran? China? Some crazy group backed by no country?

There’s really no “mutual assured destruction” deterrent in such cases.


16 posted on 03/07/2025 7:47:36 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right

The fission products “signature” should be able to indicate origin, pretty well.


17 posted on 03/07/2025 7:51:16 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

The Boulder Dam was built in a short time.


18 posted on 03/07/2025 7:52:23 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Sounds like the same pessimistic attitude after Reagan proposed SDI.


19 posted on 03/07/2025 7:54:21 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: buwaya

You can bet the defense industry complex is licking its lips at the thought of 100 billion in new defense expenditures...


20 posted on 03/07/2025 7:56:00 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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