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Trump's 'Golden Dome' will cost $1.2tn and might not stop all-out missile attack [View all]
Source: BBC
US President Donald Trump's futuristic "Golden Dome" missile defence system will cost about $1.2 tn (£882bn) to develop, deploy and operate over two decades, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates.
That figure is significantly higher than the initial sum of $175bn (£129bn) that had been earmarked.
And the system designed to shield the US against ballistic and cruise missiles might not even work. The new CBO report warned the Golden Dome could be vulnerable to a full-scale attack by Russia or China.
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SpaceX and Lockheed Martin last month won contracts worth up to $3.2bn to develop space-based missile interceptor prototypes for the system.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxp27j1xyjo
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62379
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