[LibWhacker]

Oh, perfect. Let's just drop our guard completely.

[Darteaus94025]

Absolute best first step in any conflict:

Blind your opponent.

US: -1

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

NWO puppet 0bama is doing a rather seamless job of shutting down our capabilities, and our superpower status along with it in a relatively short period of time. 200+ years of progress deconstructed by one Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien agent of the NWO with a phony biography.

[Joe 6-pack]

Oh great...now were going to be flooded with illegal aliens from zeta reticuli.

[ThunderSleeps]

Missile defense agency and the Air Force operate other radars that also pick up everything in orbit. Hate to see the redundancy lost, but we are far from blind.

[SpaceBar]

If I were Kim Jong Un, I’d schedule a satellite launch the day after they finally pull the plug, and send it on a low orbit that passes over the White House and Lake Kickapoo Texas.

[rbg81]

My guess is that his is redundant capability. There are lots of ground based sensors that track satellites and space junk.

[Pox]

Fine by me. Take this expenditure out of the defense budget and let Congress vote on whether or not to fund it.

[smokingfrog]

How much is the rent?

[GBA]

“The Space Fence is very important as it gives an ‘uncued tracking’ capability,” Weeden said. “Because it’s constantly transmitting, it can detect objects without being tasked to do so. There are some other sensors in the network that can do uncued tracking to some degree, but the Space Fence is rather unique in the sheer size of the detection coverage it has.”

We're so nice! We're twice as polite as Days Inn.

For whatever is coming, we'll not only leave the light on for ya, we'll leave the windows unlocked and the doors wide open.

Maybe God will protect us, because apparently obama and his sequester just said "No."

[LibLieSlayer]

HEY FREE REPUBLIC... OBAMA JUST GAVE THE SYRIANS 192 MILLION DOLLARS FOR “HUMANITARIAN AID”. YEAH LIKE WE BELIEVE THAT GARBAGE! NO MONEY FOR FUNDING THIS DEFENSIVE SYSTEM TO MONITOR SATELLITES AND DEFENSIVE SPACE BASED WEAPONS AND ORBITING DEBRIS BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER COOL 192 MILLION DOLLARS TO GIVE TO AL QAEDA AND THE MB! What an great American that obama is. /S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S/S

[LibWhacker]

Interesting YouTube video put out by Lockheed Martin touting their new Space Fence. Looks pretty cool. But it's not scheduled to go online until 2017, and that date can be delayed by years. Meantime, we're flying blind.

True, there is some redundancy. But the old Space Fence does a lot that no other system can. And it's cheap. It doesn't simply protect us from stray chunks of debris. Our enemies could hide offensive elements in those extensive debris fields. My understanding is that only a space fence can keep track of it all.

Another twist... The facility they're shutting down in October provides coverage for the Southern-tier states; i.e., largely Republican states. Oh, that muslim pos in the White House is vicious.

[Richard from IL]

My Dad, Roger Easton, designed the Space Fence. It helped inspire GPS. Grrrr

[clearcarbon]

Comrade obama is still looking for more resume enhancements, and a second Pearl Harbor would be a notable inclusion.

[Iron Munro]

We can’t be wasting money on programs like this when the money is needed to pay for more food stamps for illegal aliens, more Obamaphones, free condoms for college girls, free abortions and Obamacare for all the the moochers.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Secret Agent Man]

obama can’t do a false flag emp if there’s evidence it originated in the usa or close by.

[Innovative]

Recent follow up:

Space Fence Shutdown Expected To Weaken Orbit Surveillance Network

http://www.spacenews.com/article/military-space/36720space-fence-shutdown-expected-to-weaken-orbit-surveillance-network

The U.S. Air Force’s decision to shut down a key component of its Space Surveillance Network will weaken the service’s ability to accurately detect and characterize objects in Earth orbit, experts say.

[43north]

Well thank God the USAF can still afford gay pride celebrations and drag queen acts for all of their fudge packers.

[Nowhere Man]

Too bad we can't have a private firm take it over or get some old ham radio operators (the radar operates just below the amateur 220 Mc band and just above VHF TV channel 13) to volunteer and run it. I know the government should keep this program running but if they fall down on the job, somebody else should take over, it is that important.

BTW, also in that area, 216 - 220 Mc, I've heard ship to shore comms on the Ohio River too.

[Steely Tom]

Part of the “more flexibility” he promised Putin he’d have in his second term.