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U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space
arhca writes "Wired has an article about the U.S. Air Force's plans to put military weapons in outer space. Plans include firing hypervelocity rods from space to targets on the ground, space-based lasers and large mirrors to reflect the beams at targets on the ground, and a space-based radio frequency energy weapon to destroy or disable foreign satellites. The Air Force's PDF can be found here."
Whos gonna stop us?
No one, thats who.
Why do you love a cowardly deserter so much?
"$66.4 million is being spent on a research project to "deny, disrupt and degrade adversary space-based surveillance and reconnaissance systems." He said another $79 million is funding efforts to build a "constellation of optical sensing satellites to track and identify space forces."
So did we (the U.S.) just spike our flag in SPACE??? Space?!
Since it seemes we're the only ones that can monitor anything from there and can create a constellation of space junk(?) Based on Michael Kucharek, U.S. Air Force Space Command spokesmans' comments.
Maybe there will be martians in that brine, to come knock us down a few pegs....sounds like we need it
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
Also, am I the only one who is a mite worried about their ability to aim correctly at the target, as they didn't do a particularly good job of that in Iraq with a much shorter range to worry about.
You're either misinformed, or terminally stupid. I'm inclined to think the latter.
The US airstrikes consistently landed within feet, and oft times inches, or their intended targets. This was after traveling hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles away. I know, I was there, I pushed some of the buttons that launched those airstrikes. I also worked with one of the guys who designed the GPS guided smart bombs; they're as accurate, or more so, as Fox News reported.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Is there any documentation of this alleged secret goal, or are you basing your argument on the load of crap invented after the fact by Jerry Pournelle?
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
It worked well, apparently.
Yeah, I felt so releaved when we finally won the "Cold War". </sarcasm>
Also, SDI "Strategic Defense Initiative", if I remember correctly, was a purely defensive mechanism that used lasers or whatnot to destroy nukes coming from USSR or some other evil commie country that came to the conclusion that its a good day to destroy the Earth.
Call me crazy, but I think the US having the ability to rain down death and destruction on anyone who gets in our way does make the world a safer place. For Americans.
And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates them.... I don't know whether people like you make me angry or just nauseous. Probably both. I wouldn't call you crazy, crazy would imply you were insane. No, you're just sick.
When will the goverment learn that our real danger comes from deep sea monsters. We need more research for sharks with freakin lasers on their heads.
I think the "Rods from space" idea actually sounds kind of cool. Outside of the practical problems, and even though (according to the article) they could only deliver one-ninth the destructive energy per gram as a conventional bomb, seems to me the fear of whether or not a "Rod from space" might be lurking just overhead would have some value against potential targets.
And maybe one day, we can piss them off enough that they'll stop accepting our aid. For that matter, want to see them pissed, cut off the handouts...
Guess what would happen if the US didn't have the ability to rain down death and destruction?
- North Korea would march right past the 38th parallel and into Seoul and hundreds of thousands of people would die in the process
- Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon would try to solve the Israel "problem" for the last time, and Israel would likely be foreced to resort to nuclear weapons in defending itself killing hundreds of thousands.
- Pakistan and India would lob their brand new nukes at each other over Kashmir killing millions of people
- Columbian drug lords would stage a coup and take over the whole country to rule as a bloody dictatorship, killing thousands
- The Muslims and Christians in south eastern europe would begin to kill each other again because there would be nobody to stop them
- Every country in the world that currently relies on the US for defense (and there are A LOT of countries that do rely on us through treaties and non-proliferation agreements) would collectivly crap a load of bricks and scramble to buy their own weapons
- Much of the world would degrade into dog-eat-dog anarchy, but this time everybody would have better technology.
You see, there is a reason that the past 60 years has been some of the most peaceful years in the history of the earth. The US has done more good with our military power than any other country has ever done.
Why even post these mock technology articles. New weapons will always be created, so don't go glorifying them as some great application of the mind...it just makes the miliary look scared of getting their hands dirty.
Besides, these weapons really don't provide the U.S. with much greater power than it already has. And it doesn't provide any greater protection against home-made pipe bombs, snipers and ricin in the reservoir.
You sir, are extremely misinformed. The fact that you pushed some of the buttons means nothing to me.
Hmm, I was on the scene, yet I'm misinformed. I know more about these systems than you'll ever know, yet I'm misinformed. My hands-on experience means nothing to you.
You, sir, are a blithering idiot.
As for the restaurant and such, we didn't miss the building, did we? Yeah, Saddam wasn't there, but that's an intel failure. It happens in war time. The alternative is to blanket the entire area with munitions, killing even more innocents.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.