‘Golden Dome’ comprehensive weapons defenses in the works as lawmakers make Trump dream a reality

SOLE With the Iran situation intensifying senators will put forward a bill Tuesday that creates the Golden Dome missile defense system modeled off Israel s Iron Dome that President Donald Trump required for at the beginning of his term Sens Dan Sullivan R-Alaska and Kevin Cramer R-N D came together to craft the Ground Orbital Launched Defeat of Emergent Nuclear Destruction and Other Missile Engagements Golden Dome Act a billion congressional authorization split among more than two dozen individual defensive strategies It comes after Trump ordered in January that a defense system be realized in response to the threat of attack by ballistic hypersonic and cruise missiles and other advanced aerial attacks Trump later proven his plan to seek construction of the Golden Dome at a May White House appearance with Sullivan The escalating missile threats we ve witnessed from the Iranian terrorist regime and the rapidly evolving hypersonic cruise missile and drone threats from Russia China and other adversaries demonstrate why we need to develop a robust modernized missile defense system to protect the entire country which the Golden Dome Act will do Sullivan reported Fox News Digital IN ONLY STATE BORDERING RUSSIA GOVERNOR SAYS DEFENSES ARE STRONG The three prongs of thriving approach in D C are presidential leadership appropriated funding and comprehensive authorizing bill Trump s order cited former President Ronald Reagan s so-called Star Wars plan to build laser-based nuclear defense systems against the Soviet Union while Sullivan and Cramer took a big step Tuesday toward creating something even more comprehensive Similar to Star Wars the Golden Dome plan calls for the maturation and deployment of space-based weapons sensors as well as research into another orbital component Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Sullivan s state of Alaska is home to particular of North America s majority of essential extant defense systems particularly at Clear Space Force Base near Fairbanks and Fort Greely in Delta Junction The latter is home to Alaska Army National Guard members who provide operational control and protection for the nation s ground-based interceptors according to Alaska Gov Mike Dunleavy There are about interceptors at-the-ready at Fort Greely The Golden Dome plan builds on such defenses by creating maintaining and or revitalizing other sites as well including the Cobra Dane a land-based passive electronically scanned array radar system positioned in the Aleutian Chain Alaska is a big part of missile defense because the location is sort of perfect Trump announced As both the easternmost and westernmost state in the union Alaska is also the commercial and defensive gateway to Asia state authorities have noted Specifics of the Golden Dome Act would focus first on present situations the U S can respond to in the near-term including upgrading systems and replenishing munitions short-in-supply like PAC- Patriot missiles AK SENATOR LITERALLY TEARS UP BIDEN'S ABILITY ORDERS BOOSTS WH EFFORTS TO LEVERAGE ARCTIC LNG IN ASIA TRADEThe second piece of the puzzle is forward-looking according to a source familiar with the effort focusing on technologies like space-based interceptors and air-moving-target indicators capabilities the U S has yet to fully master Particular assets for use in any China-Taiwan contingency are already in Alaska foreshadowing that the components of the Golden Dome would be subject to a robust testing regime The Golden Dome would also include a battle-management system allowing Trump or a future commander in chief to have visibility and the panoply of options at his fingertips if an attack on the U S surfaces The Golden Dome would also include the AEGIS Ashore missile range in Kauai Hawaii and in Cramer s state the Perimeter Acquisition Radar System at Cavalier Space Force Base Additional mobile launch systems would be created across the country as well as an early warning radar installation to be developed somewhere in the South The GOLDEN DOME Act increases our national safety by enhancing all-domain awareness -- eyes and ears upon which any missile-defense architecture relies bolstering missile and drone defeat ceiling to meet the peer and near-peer threat and accelerating new capabilities to the force to counter future threats to the homeland Sullivan and Cramer s plan read Despite this increasing threat United States homeland missile defense initiative has been severely limited to staying ahead of rogue nation threats and accidental or unauthorized missile launches CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPCramer whose state was subject to suspicious Chinese land purchases near a sensitive military base reported U S adversaries weapons tech has advanced so the U S ' defense should stay ahead of them We have to act in order to defend against the evolving and complex threat landscape Senator Sullivan and I introduced the GOLDEN DOME Act to build a layered missile defense system which protects our homeland from catastrophic attacks from modern missiles Cramer reported Rep Mark Messmer R-Ind who will lead companion provision in the House added that the U S must stand ready to prevent nuclear weapons from harming our citizens