A week after his post, US President Donald Trump surprised the world and many politicians by announcing his plans to create a missile defense shield, describing it. America’s “Iron Dome”.

Initially, evoke the name The Iron Dome Air Defense SystemIt is designed to intercept and destroy low -level targets, missiles, mortar shells and cruise missiles for a short period. It is designed with the needs and size of the Israeli defense.

However, the continental United States is wide, extends four time regions, and has a large -scale coast.

Soon it became clear that what Trump was defending on January 27 was to create a “The new generation missile defense shieldAgainst ballistic missiles, double sound, advanced journal attacks, and other air attacks from the next generation. “Basically, it is an updated version of the strategic defense initiative of former US President Ronald Reagan, or” Star Wars “program.

The phrase “Iron Dome” is a synonym for “missile defense shield”.

This new multi -layer defense system thinks that it is not only the protection of the United States, but also the front -transferred forces in the fighting.

Reagan’s dream of the missile defense shield often remained a dream, although billions of dollars were poured into the program.

The problems, and now, were that a comprehensive missile shield would be expensive in the price, it is hardly possible technically and in reality because the technologies available easily will be able to simulate blood or overcome the latest missile defense system.

However, the flag behind missile defense has come to a large extent 40 years ago, and missile defenses have now been tested in the fighting in Ukraine and Israel, which are increasingly effective.

Missile defense – the art of possible

The United States has already enjoys an early warning and objection system in place, but this has a limited ability and will be able to stop the type of attacks by simple nuclear forces such as North Korea.

It will not be possible to stop a large -scale attack by a specific and able enemy like Russia or China. Swimming defense rapidly ripening, as progress in missile instructions has increased significantly over the past decade.

The analogy of “hitting a bullet with another bullet” hints over the challenges facing the development of the missile defense system, with the exception of missiles that exceed 20 times of those speeds. In order for the missile defense shield to be applied, the incoming missiles must be discovered and followed quickly, and all this information must be transferred to objectionable batteries. The intersection must then be directed to the target, which destroys the next enemy missile.

This, preferred, should be as far as the individual’s lands as possible, especially when considering these nuclear armed missiles.

The United States and Israel poured billions of dollars in research, often cooperating, and the results are clear.

In conflicts over the sky of Ukraine and Israel, the rockets received were discovered and destroyed.

The information acquired in the actual fighting was invaluable to developers. According to the White House, the next generation missile shield will have to defend itself against “Portal nominal missiles, highly sound,And other air attacks of the next generation of peers, leadership, and rogue opponents.

This is a huge task. Modern long -term missiles come with partners and other penetration devices. Its speed is enormous at 25,000 km per hour (15500 miles per hour) or faster.

The missile defenses work partly, by prediction. Anyone can pick up a throw because they know how the balls move across the air in a predictable arch.

Ultra -chest missiles are designed to circumvent this and take a random path to their targets, making their objection more difficult. Marital flight missiles, which were first developed as offensive weapons from the first blow, fly below the radar cover and reach their targets with a little warning.

The challenges made by these types of missiles are enormous, and they will require the stopping of new networks, capabilities and weapons to be effective.

Enter the power of American space

Initially, and American space powerAnd, which Trump created during his first term in the office and its establishment in 2019, will be an integral part of this new missile shield alongside US strategic and northern orders.

Focusing to intercept any missile attack as soon as possible, perfectly in the first stage, or “reinforcement stage”, for the missile trip.

Such objections require a network of space -based radar systems to detect heat columns from the rockets that have been just launched.

The plan also calls for a series of space -based intersections that can destroy missiles at this early stage.

Whether this means objectionable missiles or the introduction of space -based laser batteries in orbit is still seen.

Space -based laser technology has advanced greatly since the 1980s when these weapons were proposed for the first time. However, it still needs more investment and reduction before it becomes a viable weapons system.

What will lead the laser strength enough to destroy a missile of hundreds of kilometers as it moves at an increasing speed?

Short -range tactical laser technology has been used Objective objectives in Ukraine, But the force needed to destroy the incoming missiles will be greater. Space -based “Kinetic Kill” missiles can also be used to hit and destroy the missiles mainly to bits.

All of these weapons will be in orbit, covering a huge area, as they monitor the firing of missiles and attacks.

The mode, coordination and control of this wide network of intersections and detectors will be controlled by the space force, which is now given a “Warfighter”, using active weapons systems against the opponent.

Moving and Countertmove

How can the opponents interact? It is more likely by strengthening their weapons programs and largely accelerating the arms race that already exists among the forces that can be able to nuclear. This technology is already present to overcome the ability of the missile defense shield to discover all launch and objection.

No system can be 100 percent effective – so success, or failure will be a degree issue. What is the scale of the degree that depends on the measures that our opponents use?

Regardless of the traps, the basic anti -measures already exist. The mirror surfaces would weaken the strength of any laser beam targeting them. Cross warhead shrouds, with cold nitrogen, can hide the temperature of the incoming warheads, so infrared detectors will not be able to early warning.

System deception techniques, still in the fetal stages of development, is much cheaper than the same missile defense shield.

It is more likely that tens of billions of dollars for research will exfoliate to hundreds of billions with every development by the United States, which I loved a small part of the cost.

Increased risk

The tremendous cost and technical challenges aside, there is another major issue. Integrated in Trump’s executive order is a request to follow up capabilities “Defeating missile attacks before launch– In other words, the attack first. This puts a completely different rotation of what has always been described as a defensive weapon system but will now have an offensive component.

The request also calls for “ensuring its safe capacity for the second strike.” The United States has already enjoys a very strong, or revenge ability, on its fleet of nuclear missile submarines, will be able to destroy the planet several times with the firepower they have.

The ability to return to an enemy that attacked the United States will complete the wild missiles, the air -fired missiles from the air bombers and a variety of other delivery systems.

The possibility of the second strike of the United States is guaranteed, so why is there a need for a shield?

The effective shield collapses the balance of terrorism that has lasted for decades and which is based on mutual destruction, or crazy,: We can all destroy each other, even if it attacked first, so let’s not start a nuclear war that leads to the destruction of everyone.

This balance is greatly weakened if one of the two parties can hide behind an effective missile defense system, safely in knowing that if it is attacked first, the new and improved missile shield can greatly stop the weak retaliatory response.

This shift in balance is particularly dangerous because it sends a signal to competing countries close to analogy, which led them to take their own counter measures.

The world has become more dangerous, and the space is about to become much more crowded.