Das Weiße Haus bestätigt, dass die USA über Geheimdienstinformationen über russische Anti-Satelliten-Fähigkeiten verfügen

by ExactlySorta

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  2. I look forward to the upcoming Dark Age.

    The bread making skill I developed during the pandemic will finally come in handy.

  3. Isent this actually *worse* than a nuke? I mean if they can take out NATOs eyes before a first strike, it seems to me like a red line

  4. This is….unsettling. Not sure why they’re even telling us this, especially now Russia knows we know.

  5. This is what appeasement gets us. Let’s keep kicking the Russian problem to future generations.

  7. I guess Russia finally got around to watching GoldenEye.

  8. Here’s the really critical part. Our president actually believes his own intelligence agencies.

  9. This new arms race is going to give us all kinds of cool shit

  10. I mean if they hit satellites the US would absolutely respond. It’s not like Russia could afford doing anything.

  12. Id really like to see what kind of gourmet whoop ass americas got canned up somewhere if they did this

  13. And does the US not possess that same ability? Genuinely curious.

  14. This is so Dr Strangelove. Destroying satellites is only one link in the chain of mutually assured destruction, once that is triggered it is basically strike as fast as possible. Only a cancer-riddled madman would do it. I’m surprised the leaders of the Russian army haven’t worked out a way to put Putin out to pasture yet. Their lack of imagination is putting their own futures at peril. 

  16. Just out of interest, with whatever extreme strike methods used… will there be a warning in terms of capitulate or this will happen?

    Because although defeat or submissive actions maybe hard, this maybe the only choice

  17. _ “We are not talking about a weapon that can be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth,” Kirby added._

    Damage will be done by all the planes and ships that’ll be crashing and the fact that some attack systems might no longer work, so the enemy could attack military infrastructure in areas that had been protected by air strikes before.

    I guess most defensive systems work without GPS.

  18. Is a nuke really necessary for a satellite? Aren’t there just large bombs that will do the trick? Why a nuke lol

  19. I hesitate to downplay Russian threats. But going back to the Soviet era, the modus operandi has always been to shroud their projects in secrecy and massively over state the capabilities. This is a trend that has continued right up through the Su-57 and T-14 Armata projects.

    So, while I have not doubt that Russia would pursue an anti-satellite capability as part of their broader security strategies, I do question their ability on a technical, and economical level to successfully execute said strategy. For some reason, I suspect that 10 to 15 years from now we will find that this project never really got past a handful of mechanical drafts and a hollow wood mock-up model.

  20. This is really nothing new but Russia has become more aggressive lately. One of the more recent specific examples is Kosmos 2558. They are often referred to as inspector satellites but very likely have the capability to incapacitate adversary satellites. I do wonder why we are just now seeing this addressed in a more public manner. 

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  22. But.. you cannot selectively EMP or nuke satellites so wouldn’t this cause immense problems for their own military, country, allies, etc.? If you nuke satellites in LEO and the ensuing destruction propagates to all other satellites in LEO, aren’t they going to be just as unable to have GPS, etc. as anyone else on the planet? This seems more like a MAD type of strategy similar to any other sort of nuclear capability.

  23. Did everyone forget that China has had the ability to GRAB and GRAPPLE other satellites for a while now?

  24. Current nukes on ICBMs go to space… EMP or debris is achievable with current tech from any nuclear player.

    Disabling individual satellites or constellations is achievable with standard strategic AA such as patriots or S400.

    China was recently (2019) rebuked for downing one of their satellites ( to prove their AA can do it). The US and Russia proved the same back in the 70s…

    So what are we talking about here ? Serious question.

    Apart from stationing warheads (whose only effect would be to diminish time of flight/time to impact) in space what is the new weapon supposed to be able to achieve that current capabilities cannot?

  25. What I wonder is: if Russia is working on this, what capabilities does the USA have in that sphere that we don’t know anything about? Space Force has got to have something up its sleeve, one would think.

  26. Time to start teaching the ancient art of reading paper maps

  27. Republicans turning over our cia secretes ? Traitors!

  30. Gee, we better elect a Russian stooge as president then so they don’t attack us.

  31. and here I thought the big secret super weapon Putin spoke about was the Republican party

  32. Can’t wait to have no electricity, internet, or cellular service because a dictator wants to rule the world. Fuck Russia with a barbed shaft.

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