Hegseth Hails First Test Of America's 'Golden Dome' Missile Defense Shield
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Hegseth Hails First Test Of America's 'Golden Dome' Missile Defense Shield Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon has carried out the first milestone test of the Golden Dome for America missile defense program, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on June 23 that an autonomous targeting system and directed-energy technology successfully intercepted a series of simulated incoming threats.
Declaring the test a “full mission success,” Hegseth said in a statement on social media that the system detected, tracked, targeted, and destroyed multiple drone and cruise missile threats, marking a watershed moment for President Donald Trump’s signature homeland missile defense shield. “President Trump is making President [Ronald] Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) visi...
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