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Science & Technology

'Golden Dome'

2025-05-15

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] Our beloved Tulsi Gabbard's office published funny pictures in support of the Golden Dome.

The scheme is very creative (including pictograms, especially the aeroballistic missile turned out well), the assessment was clearly tailored to the task.

The prospects of China and Iran overtaking Russia and the DPRK, respectively, in the number of ICBMs are especially amusing. The answers to the questions "why?" and "how?" are not given.

The separate emphasis on partial-orbital bombardment systems is also funny. But now we can assume that by 2035, American intelligence expects no more than 12 "Sarmats" with combat equipment capable of flying over the South Pole.

Thousands of terrible-terrible cruise missiles, in turn, make us recall the well-known domestic calculations about a disarming strike with "Tomahawks".

Also note the strategically important position given to Greenland in the diagram. Not that this ( https://t.me/vatfor/4709 ) is news, but it is symptomatic.

Let's sum up:

1. The missile threat to the continental United States will continue to be inflated, largely fairly, but with deliberately overstated estimates.

2. An antidote to a massive strike will not be created, but countermeasures (both fire and information) will increase their potential to counter the entire spectrum of air and space attack weapons.

3. A lot of money will be spent. A lot.

4. They will continue to offer to limit and reduce arsenals to us and the Chinese, and the excessive inflation of Chinese prospects may be aimed at forcing the Chinese themselves to increase transparency in this area.

Posted by:badanov

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