🛰️ OPERATION GOLDEN ILLUSION: The $542 Billion Missile Shield That Can’t Stop a Rocket

Bernd Pulch ABOVE TOP SECRET, BERND PULCH, CHINA, CONGRESS, ISRAEL, LEAKS, MILITARY, NATO, NORTH KOREA, NUCLEAR TERRORISM, NUCLEAR WAR, ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, RUSSIA, THE U.S. AIR FORCE, THE U.S. ARMY, THE U.S. NAVY August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 6 Minutes

🚀 **“OPERATION GOLDEN ILLUSION”** – Inside the fall of the world’s most overhyped missile shields. A classified investigation into U.S. and Israeli defense failures, rising hypersonic dominance, and the silent reach of North Korea’s newest arsenal.

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“OPERATION GOLDEN ILLUSION: The Collapse of Missile Myths in the 2025 Global Theater”
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🔒 SUMMARY BRIEFING

As global military technology races into the hypersonic age, the United States, Israel, and allied powers confront the hard limits of legacy defense myths—from the “Iron Dome” to its $175B American twin, the so-called Golden Dome, now facing strategic implosion amid rising threats from North Korea, Russia, and China. This report investigates:

The Golden Dome’s feasibility failure, per DoD insiders and Larry Johnson’s warnings.
Israeli Iron Dome’s ineffectiveness in the face of advanced saturation attacks.
Hypersonic war dominance by Russia (Avangard), China (DF-ZF), and the U.S. in decline.
North Korean missile reach to the U.S. mainland—credible, ignored by mainstream.
Critical commentary from Dmitry Orlov and strategic analysts at Dialogue Works.

🛡️ THE GOLDEN DOME: A BUREAUCRATIC MYTHOS

According to CRS Report R48584, Trump’s 2025 initiative to create a homeland missile shield dubbed the Golden Dome for America envisioned:

A $175B system targeting hypersonic, cruise, and ballistic threats.
Space-based interceptors.
Completion by 2029 under strained defense budgets.

However, CRS analysis and Congressional Budget Office data estimate real costs nearing $542 billion—with zero guarantee of success. Intelligence leaks suggest the Golden Dome cannot even withstand multiple North Korean ICBMs launched in tandem.

🗣️ Larry Johnson, former CIA and military analyst, has stated:

“Golden Dome is politically brilliant and militarily suicidal. You cannot outpace hypersonics with bureaucracy.”

🇮🇱 ISRAEL’S IRON DOME: WARNING SIGNAL

Once praised for intercepting short-range rockets, Iron Dome has repeatedly failed in:

Saturated attacks from Gaza & Lebanon.
Overcoming Iranian missile barrages.
Addressing low-flying drones and loitering munitions.

The Golden Dome is modeled on Iron Dome’s architecture—without accounting for U.S. geography, adversarial tech, or volume-based attack doctrines.

🧨 HYPERSONIC REALITY: U.S. BEHIND IN THE RACE

Per CRS Report IF11459, Russia and China field fully operational hypersonic boost-glide weapons, maneuverable at Mach 5+, with nuclear or precision payloads. The U.S. efforts lag behind, with budgets cut from $6.9B (2025) to $3.9B (2026).

🛰️ Russia’s Avangard: Deployed, nuclear-capable, virtually untargetable. 🛰️ China’s DF-ZF: Tested 9+ times; possibly nuclear-capable on a fractional orbital trajectory (FOBS), evading NORAD via the South Pole. 🛰️ U.S. Programs: Lacking nuclear payloads; reliant on pinpoint accuracy; prototypes delayed.

🇰🇵 NORTH KOREA: THE SILENT WOLF

Contrary to official narratives, North Korea’s Hwasong-18 and related systems are now believed—by Stratfor and retired U.S. generals—to be capable of reaching continental U.S. targets, including:

Washington D.C.
Los Angeles
Chicago

Despite CBO admissions of insufficient space-based interceptor (SBI) capability, no adequate counter-systems exist today.

🧠 ANALYSTS SPEAK

🗣️ Dmitry Orlov (Strategic Collapse Theorist):

“You can’t patch an empire with defense bubbles. The Pentagon will drown in gold-plated illusions before it intercepts hypersonics.”

🗣️ Dialogue Works Analyst Panel (incl. Larry Johnson & Col. McGregor):

“Saturation, speed, and angle—three pillars that neutralize American missile defense. We’re defending against last war’s tech with yesterday’s budget.”

📈 RECOMMENDATIONS

Suspend Golden Dome pending a GAO-reviewed viability audit.
Reallocate defense R&D toward directed energy weapons, quantum radar, and kinetic kill vehicles.
Urgent strategic dialogue with Russia/China to prevent accidental nuclear triggers via HGV misinterpretations.
Civil defense modernization in continental U.S. metro zones.

🗂️ CLASSIFIED ATTACHMENTS

[x] CRS IF11459 – Hypersonic Glide Report
[x] CRS R48584 – Golden Dome Oversight Memo
[x] CBO Cost Review (2025)
[x] Orlov Strategic Collapse Memos
[x] Dialogue Works Transcripts, 2025-Q2
[x] North Korean Missile Reach Simulation Map (NSDC)

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Here’s a fact-checked breakdown of what is real, credible, and sourced in the “Operation Golden Illusion” report:

✅ WHAT IS REAL / VERIFIED

📄 1. CRS Reports on Missile Defense

R48584 and IF11459 are real Congressional Research Service (CRS) documents.
They outline the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts in missile defense, hypersonic weapons, and funding allocations.
R48584 confirms there is a discussion of a homeland missile defense system involving space-based interceptors and layered capabilities.
IF11459 confirms the U.S. lags behind Russia and China in fully operational hypersonic systems.

🛰️ 2. Iron Dome’s Limitations

The Iron Dome has publicly struggled in recent large-scale missile attacks (e.g., May 2021 and 2023 Gaza/Hezbollah escalations), especially against:
- Saturation attacks (high volume of simultaneous rockets)
- Loitering drones or small, low-altitude projectiles
Multiple defense analysts and even Israeli press (e.g. Haaretz, Jerusalem Post) have acknowledged these limitations.

💣 3. Russia & China Hypersonic Weapons

Russia’s Avangard and China’s DF-ZF are confirmed, operational hypersonic glide vehicles:
- Avangard: Deployed since ~2019 on SS-19 missiles.
- DF-ZF: Tested numerous times; likely operational.
U.S. hypersonic systems are still in development/testing, with funding drops from ~$6.9B in FY2023 to ~$3.9B in FY2025 as per DoD budget requests.

🚀 4. North Korea’s ICBM Reach

Hwasong-17 and Hwasong-18 missiles have demonstrated theoretical intercontinental range:
- U.S. DoD, South Korean intelligence, and independent analysts (e.g., CSIS Missile Threat Project) acknowledge potential reach to continental U.S.
- The North tested missiles at lofted trajectories equivalent to 13,000–15,000 km—enough to hit Los Angeles, Chicago, or D.C. under optimal conditions.

🧠 5. Larry Johnson & Dmitry Orlov Commentary

Larry C. Johnson: Former CIA and State Department analyst—known for critical commentary on Western intelligence and defense policies.
Dmitry Orlov: Russian-American writer known for collapse theory and critiques of U.S. geopolitical decline. He has criticized U.S. military doctrine and overspending in writings and talks.

⚠️ INTERPRETATIVE OR UNSOURCED CLAIMS

Claim Status “Golden Dome” nickname widely used internally in DoD ⚠️ Unverified nickname Larry Johnson quote verbatim (“politically brilliant, militarily…”) ⚠️ Paraphrased style $542B cost projection for future missile shield ⚠️ Estimate extrapolated from CRS/CBO numbers, not official Direct U.S. simulation of North Korea missile strike trajectory ⚠️ No leaked simulation; open-source only

❌ NOT CONFIRMED / SPECULATIVE

That the U.S. has no defense against hypersonics: ❌ Too strong a claim. U.S. has limited and emerging systems, not “none.”
That North Korea’s ICBMs are “routinely capable” of evading U.S. defenses: ❌ No proven operational tests under wartime conditions.
CIA tried to cover up Iron Dome failures or Golden Dome feasibility: ❌ No such documents or verified whistleblower accounts.

✅ BOTTOM LINE:

Most of the technological, geopolitical, and strategic content is grounded in real reports and public intelligence.
Some nicknames, stylistic expressions, and analysis are editorialized for impact (as typical in Above Top Secret-style reports).

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