Trump’s new missile shield for America – challenges and danger | Military news

One week at the office, the United States President Donald Trump surprised the world and several of his policy makers, announcing his plans to create a missile defense shield, called it “Iron Dome for America”.

First, the name developed Israel’s Iron Dome Air Defense System, designed to interfere and destroy a small-level goals, rockets, mortar shells and cruise missiles at a small distance. It corresponds to the protecting Israel’s protecting needs and size.

However, the continental United States is huge, which has four time areas, and a broad beach.

It soon became clear that the advocacy of Trump on January 27 was “against the new generation missile defense shield, ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles and other next generation aerial attacks for the United States”. Essentially, it is an updated version of former US President Ronald Reagan’s strategic defense initiative, or the “Star Wars” program.

The phrase “Iron Dome” is now synonymous with “missile defense shield”.

This new multi -layered defense system has been conceived not only as protecting America, but also to the soldiers deployed at the front.

Reagan’s dream of a missile defense shield was mostly that dream, although the billions of dollars were inserted into the program.

Problems, both and now, was that a comprehensive missile would be excessive in the shield price, barely technically possible and impractical techniques available in reality the most up-to-det missiles capable of spoiling or overwhelming the defense system Will be

However, the science behind missile defense has progressed much further in 40 years, and missile defense has now been tested in war in Ukraine and Israel, and they are rapidly effective.

Missile defense – art of possible

The US already has an early warning and interceptor system, but has limited capacity and will be able to prevent attacks launched by minor nuclear powers such as North Korea.

It will not be able to prevent massive attacks by a set and competent enemy like Russia or China. The missile defense has become rapidly mature because the missile guidance has progressed and dramatically detected in the last decade.

The analogy of the analogy of “shooting a shoot with another bullet” on the scale of challenges to develop the missile defense system, except missiles moves 20 times upwards. To be viable for a missile defense gradient, the upcoming missiles need to be rapidly detected and tracking, and all this information must be relayed to the interceptor battery. The interceptor should be directed for the goal, destroying the enemy missiles coming then.

This, preferably, should be far away from someone’s area, especially when considering these missiles can be very well -armed.

The US and Israel have added billions of dollars to research, often cooperate, and the results are clear.

In conflicts on the sky of Ukraine and Israel, upcoming missiles have been detected and destroyed with increasing frequency.

The information obtained in the actual war is invaluable for developers. According to the White House, the next generation missile shield will have to defend themselves against “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next generation aerial attacks” against colleagues, close-letters and evil anti-opponents “.

This is a huge function. Modern long -range missiles come up with decoy and other penetration AIDS. Their speed is 25,000 kilometers per hour (15,500 mph) or faster on fast.

Missile defense works, partially, by predicting. A person can catch a thrown ball because they know how the balls move through the wind in an predicted arc.

Hypersonic missiles are designed to ignore it and take a random route to their goals, making them very difficult to block. The cruise missile, first developed as the first aggressive first-stroke weapons, fly under the radar cover and reach your goals without warning.

The challenges of this type of missiles are huge, and new networks, abilities and weapons will need to be effective to prevent them.

Enter American space force

Initially, the US Space Force was built by Trump during its first term and established in 2019, which would be an integral part of this new missile shield with the American strategic and northern command.

Emphasis has been laid on stopping any missile attack as soon as possible, ideally in the first stage, or the “boost phase” of the missile flight.

Such obstruction requires a network of space-based radar systems, which is to detect the heat plums of missiles that have just been launched.

The scheme also states for a series of space-based interceptors that can destroy missiles in this initial stage.

Does this mean that the interceptor missiles or a space-based laser battery in the classroom remain to be seen.

The space-based laser technology has been highly advanced since the 1980s when such weapons were first proposed. However, it still requires more investment and miniatures, before it becomes a viable weapon system.

What will be a laser with sufficient strength to destroy a missile from hundreds of kilometers away because its goal goes at a growing speed?

Strategic, short-range laser technology has been used to disrupt goals in Ukraine, but the power required to destroy upcoming missiles will be more quantity. Space-based “Kinetic Kill” missiles can also be used to hit and essentially the missiles coming to the bits can be broken.

All these weapons will be in the classroom, covering a vast area, as they look for missile launch and attacks.

The placement, coordination and control of this huge network of interceptors and detectors will be controlled by space force, which now increases the “warfighter” role, using active weapons systems against an opponent.

Transfer and countmov

How will the opponents react? There is a possibility of promoting your own weapon programs and dramatically intensifying arms races that exist among the already atomic-capable powers. Technology is already out to easily overwhelm the ability to detect and interrupt every launch of a missile defense shield.

No system can be 100 percent effective – so success, or failure will be a matter of degree. How much degree depends on the measures used by our opponents.

In addition to decoy, basic countevants already exist. The reflective surfaces will weaken the power of any laser beam for their purpose. Warhead shroud fitted with liquid nitrogen coolant can mask the temperature of the upcoming warhead, so the initial warning infrared detectors will not see them.

Technologies to deceive a system, still in the fetal stages of development, are much cheaper than the missile defense shield.

It is likely to be faster that the billions of dollars allocated for research will be mushrooms in hundreds of billions with billions of billions of billions of billions that will fail for a fraction of cost.

Danger increased

The cost and technical challenges on one side are another major issue. Trump’s executive order is requested to carry forward the capabilities for the embedded “defeating missile attacks before launch before launch – in other words, attack first. It puts a very different spin that has always been billed as a defensive weapon system, but will now have an aggressive component.

The order also asks for the “guarantee of its safe second-stroke capacity” for technology. The US already has a very strong second, or anti -anti -strike capacity: the nuclear missile submarines will be able to destroy the planet several times in their fleet that they have.

The ability to strike back on an enemy who attacked the US will be complemented by living with land-based missiles, air-launched missiles from airborne bombers, and different types of distribution systems.

America’s second-stroke capacity is guaranteed, so why is a shield required?

An effective shield breaks the decades-old balance of terror, which is mutually assured destruction, or crazy, based: we can all destroy each other, even if the first attack has been done, so let’s have an atom at an atom Do not start war, resulting in destruction of all.

This balance becomes quite weak. If an party can hide behind an effective missile defense system, it is safe in this knowledge that if it attacks first, the new and much better missile shield can prevent weak retaliation reaction.

This change in balance is particularly dangerous because it sends a signal to close-to-close competitive countries, inspiring them to take their own counter-protests.

The world has become much more dangerous, and the space is going to become a very crowded.