Hegseth Hails First Test Of America's 'Golden Dome' Missile Defense Shield
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Hegseth Hails First Test Of America's 'Golden Dome' Missile Defense Shield Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon has carried out the first milestone test of the Golden Dome for America missile defense program, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on June 23 that an autonomous targeting system and directed-energy technology successfully intercepted a series of simulated incoming threats. Declaring the test a “full mission success,” Hegseth said in a statement on social media that the system detected, tracked, targeted, and destroyed multiple drone and cruise missile threats, marking a watershed moment for President Donald Trump’s signature homeland missile defense shield. “President Trump is making President [Ronald] Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) vision a reality,” Hegseth said. “With Golden Dome, the War Department will defend our homeland more powerfully than ever before. Golden Dome is real, powerful, and on track.” Hegseth said the demonstration showcased next-generation military technologies and represented a major step toward building what the administration has described as a multilayered shield against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons, and drones. “Golden Dome is the decisive response to a new era of threats,” Gen. Mike Guetlein, director of the Golden Dome for America program, said in an April update on the system. “We are moving with purpose and urgency to forge a shield that is layered, integrated, and automated.” The test comes about a month after Trump announced that the Department of War had selected a final architecture for the Golden Dome. “It should be fully operational before the end of my term,” Trump said on May 20 at the White House, describing the $175 billion program as a “state-of-the-art” system that includes space-based sensors and interceptors. “Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the worl
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