US-/NATO-Raketenabwehrsystem in Europa

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Lockheed Martin aims to test a missile-killing satellite by 2028

Amanda Pound, the advanced programs development director at Lockheed Martin, told reporters Monday at the company’s facility here that it is pursuing a variety of missile-killing satellite ideas, from lasers to satellites that turn into projectiles and maneuver toward hard-to-hit missiles.

“The goal is by 2028 to field an on-orbit demonstration of a space-based interceptor,” she said. “We have the capability to do that. We're ready to support.”

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Exclusive: Pentagon Golden Dome to have 4-layer defense system, slides show

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In diesem Video sieht man eine ca. zwei Sekunden kurze Sequenz mit einem "Space-based Interceptor":

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US expands Golden Dome cost estimate to $185 billion, enlists top defense firms

The price tag for the Golden Dome missile ​defense shield has grown to $185 billion, up $10 billion, to accelerate key space-based ‌capabilities, the program's director said on Tuesday, adding that Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), opens new tab, RTX (RTX.N), opens new tab and Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), opens new tab have joined as prime contractors.

"We ⁠were asked to accelerate some space capabilities," Golden Dome's manager, Space Force General Michael ​Guetlein, told the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Arlington, Virginia. He identified three programs that ​would benefit from the additional funding: the Advanced Missile Tracking Initiative, a space data network, and the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, known as HBTSS.

The $185 ⁠billion figure covers what Guetlein called the "objective architecture," a full-capability system to be delivered over the next decade.

Guetlein rejected outside estimates that have placed the program's potential cost above $1 trillion, arguing those figures are based on applying expensive, self-contained battlefield systems designed for overseas ​combat to a homeland ​defense mission that ⁠requires a fundamentally different and cheaper approach.

"They're not estimating what I'm building," Guetlein said.

Guetlein called the command-and-control system Golden Dome's "secret sauce." He ​described a nine-company consortium that began as a self-formed group of ​six firms ⁠before Lockheed Martin, RTX and Northrop Grumman joined as prime partners.

The consortium briefs Guetlein every Thursday evening and can vote underperforming members out of the group.

The general identified space-based interceptors ⁠as the ​program's highest-risk element, citing scalability and affordability as the ​central challenge. He said directed energy weapons and next-generation artificial intelligence represent the most promising technologies for driving ​down cost-per-kill and increasing magazine depth.

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Space-based interceptors make even less sense now

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