ASM-135 launch, 1985.
Posted on 10/26/2018 11:08:14 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
U.S. and NATO military intelligence agencies have recently identified a “mysterious” Russian missile they believe is designed to take out allied communications and targeting satellites during a conflict.
The missile was spotted underneath a MiG-31 interceptor, and it’s estimated to be a mock-up version that could be ready to deploy by 2022, three sources told CNBC.
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ready to deploy by 2022..
If I don’t have a heart attack by then, someone get back to me on it..
Sounds like a job for Space Force!
The Chinese took out a satellite (2007). It was a messy affair with a good amount of debris. Look up the Kessler effect — you do not want a lot of debris in orbit. If Russia is trying to knock out satellites with a missile, I’d say it’s a dumb idea.
The Chinese have been working on anti-satellite missiles for a while. To win a war against us they will need to destroy our GPS satellites which we use to guide a lot of our military hardware.
ASM-135 launch, 1985.
Remember that crazy Reagan dude that was pushing to militarize space?
I hope we are already secretly ahead of this curve. We have already proven we can shoot down a low orbit satellite from a boat.
It would be easy to make a missal miss a satellite as long as you knew in advance that it had been targeted. Just move the satellite orbit with a short burst. Problem is, how do you know when a satellite has been targeted.
Space Force: Stopping Russian rockets in their boost phase since 2020.
Not sure what they are all excited about, like you said the USA has had ‘this weapon since the mid 80’s. Old news.
Numerous anti-satellite programs started and stopped over the years. Very messy business.
I worked on ITV (instrumented target vehicle) in the early 1980’s. It was a satellite inside a large diameter, about 60 ft, wire grid. The satellite would sense where the missile penetrated the grid and transmit that information to ground. (The warhead was fuzzed to explode at point of nearest approach like a radar fuzzed AA shell.) Damn thing hit the satellite nose on.
“trying to knock out satellites with a missile, I’d say it’s a dumb idea.”
A dumber idea is to let your enemy who dominates by the use of satellites and information...keep their satellites.
So it had it’s own CEP spheroid built around it?!
Cute, very creative
We built a handful of them, flight tested one (it worked), then decommissioned the rest. We do not have this technology in our active inventory. Or so they say.
We do have THIS in our active inventory, and it works too:
Russians have a long habit of showing something they want you to think they have but actually it turns out to be junk or worse.
Remnants of past civilizations that fought each other into annihilation&extinction still dot this globe. Looks like we’re not too far from joining them.
Except that the missile has either a radar or an infrared tracker on it. So you can move the satellite but the missile is still going to hit it.
I don’t imagine it’s too difficult to take out a satellite compared to shooting down an ICBM. Doesn’t need to even be anything explosive given the speeds involved.
It would also seem that an enemy wouldn’t have to take out all of our GPS satellites, or even most of them, to degrade accuracy enough to hurt military operations. Of course I’d be surprised and ashamed if we didn’t have redundancy in depth, too.
Or so they say. Also what is the X 37 doing on all these long duration missions. I don’t buy these material testing explanations. The black budget has many projects that would amaze you.
Orbital dynamics can be a bitch if properly used. The breakthrough is the ability to defy orbital dynamics.
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