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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Is Impossible—and It’ll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money | A new study detailed all the problems with plans to shoot a missile out of the sky.
A new study detailed all the problems with plans to shoot a missile out of the sky.
“When engineers have been under intense political pressure to deploy a system, the United States has repeatedly initiated costly programs that proved unable to deal with key technical challenges and were eventually abandoned as their inadequacies became apparent,” explained a new study from the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs. “After reviewing carefully the technology and test record of the [ground-based midcourse] system, the report concludes that its unreliability and vulnerability to countermeasures seriously limits its effectiveness,” the study said. Moneymaker explained that high-value targets like military bases or large metro areas might get protection first and then be woven together into a “tapestry or fabric of protection.” He said the project is so big that progress will be incremental.
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