Posted on 05/20/2025 6:47:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Trump on Tuesday named Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein to lead his “Golden Dome” project to improve and integrate America’s missile defense technology — as House Republicans included $25 billion for the plan in the latest version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Trump said the plan would make good on Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” project in the 1980s to protect America from incoming nuclear missiles. “We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“The success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible when you think of it, you’re shooting bullets out of the air,” he said, apparently referring to THAAD missile tests, which have been successful in shooting down intermediate-range ballistic missiles, rather than nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from countries such as Russia, China and North Korea. “Canada has called us, and they want to be a part of it. So we’ll be talking to them. They want to have protection also. So as usual, we help Canada,” Trump said, joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Guetlein.
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My prediction: The Golden Dome will be completed and under budget before Newsom’s high speed rail.
I wouldn’t bet against you on that.
Ahhhh... and now we know the reason for the drone hysteria last Dec and Jan. Now 5 months later, the MIC is lining up to build missile dome that’ll be a trillion by the time it’s done.
It’s so predictable it’s almost comical.
Create hysteria, show up with gold plated solution that will wind up being more expensive than the F-35 by the time it’s done.
Maybe not Reagan, but Keyworth definitely will feel vindicated...
thank God for the great Ronald Reagan. all the ‘experts’ laughed at ‘Star Wars,’ except Gorbie and the Soviets.
“We win. They lose.”
They’re just not into protecting America.
(now we know the reason for the drone hysteria last Dec and Jan. Now 5 months later, the MIC is lining up to build missile dome that’ll be a trillion by the time it’s done.)
Why would Biden be interested in building a missile dome to protect America while creating drone histeria? His administration hated America and didn’t care about protecting it.
“Why would Biden be interested in building a missile dome to protect America while creating drone histeria?”
The potato wasn’t. The people who will make a trillion building it are perfectly capable of starting the scam. They started the F-18 UFO tic tac scam in the spring of 2020. Time for the big push. Trump is here and needs to make the defense contractors happy.... and here we are.
(They started the F-18 UFO tic tac scam in the spring of 2020.)
The pilots swear by what they encountered. The pilot David Fravor and others have testified to Congress under the penalty of perjury.
Test to date have been profoundly unchallenging. $25B . . . okay, a feasibility study. And one hopes that money came from something else because we don’t have it as extra above DoD budget.
Trump’s Golden Dome Missile Shield: What We Just Learned And Its Implications
Golden Dome is a very ambitious and costly endeavor that could have major ramifications beyond defending America’s skies.
https://www.twz.com/space/trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-what-we-just-learned-and-its-implications
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