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."

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Re:Just what we need

[corbettw]

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.