Trumps golden dome is a big useless pile of shit

[Frankfooter]

The other problem with the Golden Dome is that it is supposed to take out ICBMs.
Russia for example, has, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences, 5,459 warheads but only 1,254 are delivered via an ICBM.
https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/rbul_a_2494386_t0001-full.pdf
There would have to be a sub layer of intercepters placed round the coastal areas to intercept the missiles launched by subs in the coastal ocean areas.
Then the air and sea launched cruise missiles as well.
Thaad has a range of 125 miles while the Patriot system has a range of 99 miles.
Patriot targets tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
Thaad targets short, medium, and intermediate range ballistic missiles.
The length of the continental United States coastline is approximately 12,380 miles.
You would need at least 99 Thaad batteries with staffing to cover just the coastline and still leave the Northern entry open.
Patriot batteries would be in the range of 125 to cover the same area.
At 2.5 Billion USD per Patriot battery, this portion of the dome at 312.5 billion USD would eat up the estimated 175 billion USD cost for the Golden Dome with out even staffing them.

Does the game change after 'operation spiderweb'?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929199096163614924

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929138633077891486

 

[nottyboi]

Russia couldn't stop Ukrainian drones yesterday.
$340 drones blew up 34% of Russia's bomber fleet.

Missile protection are so last century.

Any missile system can be saturated. They lost about 4 planes, I guess when the Sat photos come out we will see who is telling the truth

 

[PeteOsborne]

Does the game change after 'operation spiderweb'?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929199096163614924

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929138633077891486

Different ball of wax.
High entry ICBM carrying nuclear warheads compared to a low altitude short range drone carrying a conventional small yield explosive.
Pretty much the only way to deter a drone attack like this is through intelligence and stopping them before they are in place.

 

[Frankfooter]

Different ball of wax.
High entry ICBM carrying nuclear warheads compared to a low altitude short range drone carrying a conventional small yield explosive.
Pretty much the only way to deter a drone attack like this is through intelligence and stopping them before they are in place.

Which means the golden dome is pretty much useless.
Israel's iron dome can stop homemade rockets from Gaza but not anything larger from Yemen.
Definitely useless on hypersonics, there is only a very narrow range of devices it will stop within a range.

Operation Spiderweb doesn't sound like it will be easy to repeat.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929381030206591353

 

[Frankfooter]

Any missile system can be saturated. They lost about 4 planes, I guess when the Sat photos come out we will see who is telling the truth

sure

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929461348515074263