Via Space War by Staff
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield could cost a staggering $1.2 trillion over 20 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday.
“Of the $1.2 trillion amount, acquisition costs…would total just over $1 trillion. That amount includes costs for the system’s major components — namely, the interceptor layers and a space-based missile warning and tracking system,” CBO said in a report.
“The most expensive component is the space-based interceptor layer, which accounts for about 70 percent of acquisition costs and 60 percent of total costs,” it said.
Average annual costs for operations and support would meanwhile come in at $8.3 billion, the report said.
Trump ordered the Pentagon to develop plans for a high-tech missile defense shield in late January 2025, initially dubbing it “Iron Dome for America.”
In May 2025, Trump announced that $25 billion had been earmarked for the project, estimating its total cost at $175 billion.
However, CBO said the same month that the cost of space-based interceptors to defeat a limited number of intercontinental ballistic missiles could be between $161 billion and $542 billion over 20 years.
And the goals for Golden Dome are significantly more expansive, with the 2026 National Defense Strategy saying the Pentagon will “focus on options to cost-effectively defeat large missile barrages and other advanced aerial attacks.”
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The sad fact of life is that freedom and safety DO cost money.
If we don’t have this ‘dome’ to protect our country, what good will money do?
There will be no country or people left to spend or save it!
Libs and RINOs can yell all that they want to.
Without this protective ‘dome’, they will most certainly be dead if there is another major war.
And I hear people say that if we don’t start a war, there will be no war.
Ask the remaining people left from the 1930s and ’40s about THAT!
Iran has been at war with us since the Shah was removed.
If they EVER get ‘nukes’ and long range missiles, we’ll MOST CERTAINLY have that major war!
Time to wake up to reality!