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Updated · SpaceNews · Aug 20

Golden Dome Downed All Test Targets in 34 Minutes as $22.5 Billion Program Faces 2027 Funding Fight

Updated

Updated · SpaceNews · Aug 20

Golden Dome Downed All Test Targets in 34 Minutes as $22.5 Billion Program Faces 2027 Funding Fight

1 articles · Updated · SpaceNews · Aug 20

Guetlein said Golden Dome hardware used in an integrated test three or four weeks ago shot down every target launched within 34 minutes, offering the clearest public proof yet of the system’s progress.
The Pentagon’s missile shield is being built as a layered “system of systems” against ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, drones and fractional orbital bombardment threats—not just nuclear ICBMs.
About 90% of the program’s initial $22.5 billion has already been obligated, Guetlein said, with radars, interceptors, space-based interceptors and sites now under contract after roughly 12 months of active work.
North Dakota senators Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven used the Aug. 20 event to build public support ahead of a fiscal 2027 budget fight, arguing existing U.S. homeland defenses are too limited and state assets such as PARCS could fit the architecture.

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After a flawless secret test, can Golden Dome's experimental space interceptors truly survive the harsh realities of orbital combat?

Will launching thousands of defense satellites secure the homeland, or accidentally trap Earth under a dangerous cloud of orbital debris?

With a massive discrepancy in cost estimates, what hidden expenses is the Golden Dome project keeping from the public eye?

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