Comment: Having served at GFAFB when Spartan and Sprint ABM systems were in place and up and running, it was reassuring that the Army had us covered with protection. This article discusses protection for our whole country!
https://www.twz.com/space/putting-missile-interceptors-in-space-critical-to-defending-u-s-citizens-space-force-boss
Los Alamos National Laboratory via Aerospace Projects Review
JOSEPH TREVITHICK
POSTED 11 HOURS AGO
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New space-based interceptors called for in President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative are all about addressing threats as quickly and as far away from the U.S. homeland as possible, according to U.S. Space Force’s top officer. The Golden Dome (formerly known as Iron Dome) plans come amid broader discussions and concerns about the weaponization of space.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman talked about Golden Dome and other topics during an interview broadcast online as part of Defense One‘s State of Defense 2025: Air Force and Space Force virtual conference today. Golden Dome was first rolled out publicly in an executive order in January and proposes a huge expansion of America’s missile defense architecture.
“It’s not just that we want space-based interceptors, we want them in [the] boost phase,” Saltzman said. “We want them to achieve their effects as far from the homeland. So they’ve got to be fast, they’ve got to be accurate.”
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman. USAF
