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I just love the complete lack of self-awareness. Russia and China bad, the US is good.
This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. They have the technology and enough budget to defend military and commercial satellites and just looking for political support to actually do so. The CCP military may be ahead in number of rockets but the US is way ahead in number of spy satellites by a far margin and can also commission civilian capabilities for this.
> This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. The article is mostly about ground-based attacks, which pretty much everyone can do.
I just love the complete lack of self-awareness. Russia and China bad, the US is good.
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Is there anything from the ground that can be done by Space Force to protect assets in space from direct attack from projectile weapons? Is there anything Space Force can to from space to protect them? No? Then what have they actually done except get new uniforms and patches?
I mean those are the problems that are being worked on, I presume. Seems a little tautological to say we currently have no space defense/offense capabilities so it's senseless to invest in space defense/offense.
Edit: sorry, I meant logo/emblem in place of uniform.
> There may come a point where we demonstrate some of our capabilities so that our adversaries understand they cannot deny us the use of space without consequence Obviously that time has come if they are attacking our satellites. Why is everyone in the US government so afraid to stand up to China?
Biting the hand that feeds you is typically frowned upon. You thought trade was disrupted by a mere global pandemic, wait until the disruptions from a global war kick in. We've fought wars for the past 20 years while spending on consumer goods has risen steadily and taxes have been lowered many times. Long has it been the populace has felt the pinch of giving things up to support the war effort, but go to war with th…
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Space rendezvous is really hard. Easier to get line-of-sight and then beam attack it
Hitting is easier of course! The idea is to disable a satellite in a nicest possible way, in order to look good in the eyes of everyone but the adversary.
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Don’t forget only existing as a separate department as an ego boost by the the idiot who literally tried to overthrow the government when he didn’t get his way in an election. To me the Space Force is terribly tainted by association. I don’t know what will change that, but vague claims of threats doesn’t.
> Don’t forget only existing as a separate department as an ego boost by the the idiot who literally tried to overthrow the government when he didn’t get his way in an election. While the description of Trump is accurate, that of the US Space Force is not: it does not exist as a separate department, it is a separate uniformed service within the Department of the Air Force, much as the Marine Corps is within the Depar…
> There may come a point where we demonstrate some of our capabilities so that our adversaries understand they cannot deny us the use of space without consequence Obviously that time has come if they are attacking our satellites. Why is everyone in the US government so afraid to stand up to China?
Biting the hand that feeds you is typically frowned upon. You thought trade was disrupted by a mere global pandemic, wait until the disruptions from a global war kick in. We've fought wars for the past 20 years while spending on consumer goods has risen steadily and taxes have been lowered many times. Long has it been the populace has felt the pinch of giving things up to support the war effort, but go to war with th…
This article presents some thoughts on how, if and when the US should or could strike (back) in space after summarizing the alleged current space combat capability developments of other nations. You can easily replace "US" with other nations and the target audience with their citizens and allies. By this logic, every nation needs to ramp up space combat capabilities, because their perceived or real enemies could also…
We already did that with the Mercury and Apollo missions. The space race was all about who had the high ground.
And it never ends. So now we're shifting to hypersonic weapon offense and defense.
This article presents some thoughts on how, if and when the US should or could strike (back) in space after summarizing the alleged current space combat capability developments of other nations. You can easily replace "US" with other nations and the target audience with their citizens and allies. By this logic, every nation needs to ramp up space combat capabilities, because their perceived or real enemies could also…
Can't say we promote that anywhere though. Did he rise to a high rank? Became a thought leader? He was reprimanded, and he considered according to him that he just did his job and nothing really (that is to his credit perhaps). I didn't see him getting a Nobel peace prize either, and it seemed it was the west that celebrated this years after he was retired his heroic decision.