{"id":59706,"date":"2025-08-17T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59706"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:21:16","slug":"golden-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/golden-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Golden Dome<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golden Dome is a ground- and space-based missile defense system designed to safeguard the United States from advanced missile threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Golden Dome Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the US President has announced a 175 billion Golden Dome missile defence shield for the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Golden Dome<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>ground- and space-based missile defense system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to safeguard the United States from advanced missile threats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Golden Dome aims to <\/span><b>create a network of satellites to detect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, track and potentially intercept incoming missiles. The shield could deploy hundreds of satellites for missile detection and tracking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will protect the US from long-range missiles, including those launched from space or other continents, and will integrate with current defense systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Features of the Golden Dome<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Space-Based Interceptors:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The system aims to deploy interceptors in space to detect and neutralize incoming missiles at various stages of their trajectory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Advanced Tracking Technologies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Utilizing space-based radars and sensors, the Golden Dome will provide real-time tracking of missile threats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Laser Weapons:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The integration of laser technology is intended to enhance the system&#8217;s capability to intercept and destroy missiles mid-flight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Components of the Golden Dome will be drawn from existing American missile defence assets, including <\/span><b>Patriot missile batteries, THAAD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence), <\/span><b>Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence, and Ground-based Midcourse Defence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GMD).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/what-is-the-golden-dome-missile-defense-shield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DD News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Dome is a ground- and space-based missile defense system designed to safeguard the United States from advanced missile threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":59912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2230,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-59706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-golden-dome","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}