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Sam Benzacar, of Anatech Electronics, an RF and microwave filter company, has
published his
August 2025 Newsletter that, along with timely news items, features
his short op-ed entitled "Trump's Golden Dome: Star Wars Revisited." In it, he paints
President Trump's "Golden Dome" as the newest episode in a 60-year saga of grand
missile-defense dreams. From Nike Zeus to Nike-X, Safeguard, and President Reagan's
"Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI, aka "Star Wars"), each plan promised an invincible
shield and each collapsed under technical hurdles, ballooning budgets, and political
reality - no politics there, just harsh reality (although subsystems like the Patriot
Missile System, THAAD, Brilliant Pebbles, GMD, et al). Safeguard, the only system
ever fully deployed, guarded one North Dakota site for mere months before dismantlement.
The pattern is repetitive: bold political rhetoric meets engineering limits, delays,
and eventual abandonment. Sam argues history's lesson is clear -imagining an impenetrable
dome is far easier than building one - so the Golden Dome will likely share the
same fate.
A Word from Sam Benzacar - Trump's Golden Dome: Star Wars Revisited
 By Sam Benzacar
President Donald Trump's so-called Golden Dome missile defense plan might sound
like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it isn't the first time a president has
pitched the idea of an impenetrable protective dome over America. It's simply the
latest in a long line of ambitious American defense projects that have promised
to shield the country from incoming space threats.
 The most famous example was Ronald Reagan's
Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, which everyone called "Star Wars" because
it seemed about as realistic as Luke Skywalker battling the Death Star. Reagan wanted
to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" with a space-based defense system,
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) but after spending around $30 billion over a
decade, the US was far from being able to construct such a system.
The idea goes back even further. In the early 1960s, Nike Zeus was designed to
shoot down Soviet missiles with nuclear-tipped interceptors. When that didn't work,
planners developed Nike-X in the mid-1960s, featuring high-speed Sprint missiles
and advanced radar systems. The only system that was actually built was called Safeguard,
which protected one missile site in North Dakota for less than a year in the mid-1970s
before being scrapped.
The pattern is always the same: politicians promise revolutionary technology,
scientists warn about technical hurdles, and cost overruns and massive delays plague
initial costs, and eventually you don't get deployed. Now Trump's Golden Dome faces
similar questions about whether it's technically feasible or just another expensive
dream. History suggests these missile defense visions are a lot harder to build
than to imagine. This one's likely to suffer the same fate.
AST SpaceMobile's Plans Opposed by Radio Amateurs
 AST SpaceMobile's proposal
to use 430 to 440 MHz amateur radio frequencies for satellite operations has sparked
resistance as the company wants to control its 248-satellite constellation using
these traditionally amateur-allocated bands outside the US, promising only limited
emergency use when other frequencies are unavailable. Amateur radio groups fear
this could create harmful interference and set a dangerous precedent if the FCC
approves the request. Some say regulators may shift interference risks to other
countries rather than address fundamental spectrum compatibility concerns. The dispute
highlights growing tensions between commercial satellite expansion and established
amateur radio allocations.
Synopsys Completes $35 Billion Ansys Acquisition
 Synopsys has completed
its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, combining electronic design automation capabilities
with multiphysics simulation technologies. This merger integrates Synopsys' silicon
design tools with Ansys' finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics
platforms. The merged technology stack incorporates AI-driven automation for mesh
generation, design space exploration, and performance prediction tasks. The combined
platform addresses technical challenges in multi-domain system design where electrical,
thermal, and mechanical interactions require simultaneous analysis.
Microwave Transmission Market Shows Strong Growth
 A report from the Del-Oro
Group shows that the microwave transmission sector experienced substantial growth
in Q1 2025, marking the second consecutive quarter of positive annual expansion
since late 2024. This momentum was primarily driven by increased mobile backhaul
infrastructure demand across developing markets, particularly in South Asia, the
Middle East, and Africa, which posted annual growth rates of 82 percent, 21 percent,
and 26 percent, respectively. Six major suppliers dominated the market, with Chinese
and European manufacturers holding leading positions. This performance also reflects
the ongoing telecommunications infrastructure investment surge in emerging economies.
Report Says AI Transforming Radar Systems
 Artificial intelligence
is transforming radar technology, creating capabilities in object detection and
environmental analysis across defense, aviation, and commercial sectors, according
to recent findings from MarketsandMarkets. According to the report, machine learning
integration enables autonomous data processing while improving signal accuracy and
reducing false alerts. This market expansion reflects growing demand from industries
seeking enhanced surveillance, improved atmospheric monitoring, and more dependable
navigation for manned and unmanned operations across land, sea, air, and space platforms.
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About Anatech Electronics
Anatech Electronics, Inc. (AEI) specializes in the design and manufacture of
standard and custom RF and microwave filters and other passive components and subsystems
employed in commercial, industrial, and aerospace and applications. Products are
available from an operating frequency range of 10 kHz to 30 GHz and include cavity,
ceramic, crystal, LC, and surface acoustic wave (SAW), as well as power combiners/dividers,
duplexers and diplexers, directional couplers, terminations, attenuators, circulators,
EMI filters, and lightning arrestors. The company's custom products and capabilities
are available at www.anatechelectronics.com.
Contact:
Anatech Electronics, Inc.
70 Outwater Lane
Garfield, NJ 07026
(973)
772-4242
sales@anatechelectronics.com
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