US EditionCollins Backs Trump's $300b 'Golden Dome' Missile Defence Plan
- In 2025, New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins endorsed Donald Trump’s $300 billion Golden Dome missile defence plan at a security summit in Singapore.
- The plan revives the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative and aims to deploy space-based sensors and interceptor missiles by 2029, though many analysts doubt its timing.
- SpaceX partnered with two tech firms challenging entrenched defence contractors, while major firms like Lockheed Martin and Rocket Lab have signaled readiness to join the project.
- Trump claimed the system would become functional before his term concluded, with an estimated cost of $300 billion over the following decade, but the Congressional Budget Office projects expenses could reach as high as $1.4 trillion across twenty years.
- Critics warn Golden Dome could trigger a global arms race, drain resources from proven missile defences and cyber resilience, and escalate tensions with China, Russia, and North Korea.
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The Golden Dome: The True Cost of a Star Wars 2.0
Trump’s proposed $175B “Golden Dome” missile defense system echoes Reagan’s SDI, but critics argue it’s costly, technically flawed, and may destabilize global security without effectively deterring adversaries.
Judith Collins endorses Trump's Golden Dome amid contract frenzy
US President Donald Trump speaks in front of a map of Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defense system in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025. Photo: Getty Images By Phil Pennington of RNZ US President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defence project has won endorsement from New Zealand.
DIA predicts big increase in China’s ICBMs by 2035 - ExchangeMonitor
China could have 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2035, an increase from 400 now, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency single page unclassified graphic released in mid-May. The graphic illustrates potential threats to the U.S. Homeland that the Golden Dome would guard against. The assessment, called “Golden Dome for America: Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland,” predicts China’s increases in various strategic…
Like Midas, the king of Greek mythology, Donald Trump would like to turn everything into gold. When he plans to revive the anti-missile shield devised by Ronald Reagan, he baptizes him as a "Golden Dome." Nothing strange in a real estate tycoon whose professional career has revolved around the horter ostensation, a promoter who has turned his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) into a kind of tropical Versailles. Steve Witkoff, a special emissary …
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