Golden Dome to include a four-layer defense system
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The Trump administration’s Golden Dome for America missile defense shield will incorporate space- and land-based defenses to create a four-layered system, according to a new report.
Defense officials presented new details on the Golden Dome project to more than 3,000 contractors in Huntsville, Alabama, in a slide show last week at the tail end of the Space & Missile Defense Symposium, Reuters reported Tuesday.
The slides indicate Golden Dome will be composed of four defensive layers: one space-based missile targeting-and-tracking system and three land-based layers. The systems remaining on the ground will include interceptors and radar arrays. The slides also indicate that defense officials are considering deploying lasers in the layered defense system.
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