[b]New Space Weapons For Earth Wars[/b]

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - [b]New Space Weapons For Earth Wars[/b]

Posted: 5/17/2002 6:42:13 AM EDT

[url]http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_war_020515-1.html[/url]

[img]http://www.space.com/images/h_ke-asat_02.jpg[/img]

[size=2]Boeing's Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite (KE-ASAT) program is intended to provide the United States with the capability to neutralize hostile satellites. The objective of the KE-ASAT program is to define, develop, integrate and test the necessary Kill Vehicle (KV), weapon control subsystem component and subsystems technologies to demonstrate hit-to-kill performance, including debris mitigation against hostile satellites. [/size=2]

[b]Space.com reports: "Military planners paint a picture of inevitability concerning space weapons. Certain experts foresee a proliferation of anti-satellites and space mines. Others suggest urgent need for totally secure, jam-proof satellite links along with a squadron of quick-reaction space bombers.

Openly discussed by military space strategists, are orbiting laser and particle beam weapons that focus killer rays of energy to zap satellites, enemy warheads in flight, or even blast targets on Earth.

Thunder rods are tossed down from orbit, these kinetic-energy devices use their own mass and very high velocity to create a destructive effect.

Finally there are natural meteoroids. Good-sized fireballs of metal could be sent to Earth, aimed at targets of choice. These impactors leave a nice crater. Even better, they leave no radioactive debris…" [/b]

Posted: 5/17/2002 6:47:17 AM EDT

[#1]

daaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnnn

Posted: 5/17/2002 6:54:50 AM EDT

[#2]

Think of all the possible uses for home and property defense... Your own Kill Vehicle in geo-synchronous orbit flying high cover... I want one...

Posted: 5/17/2002 7:09:29 AM EDT

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With those control jets, you could just turn in loose in your front yard.

How Much for the one with Camo Furniture??

Posted: 5/17/2002 7:12:32 AM EDT

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the trick is to destroy the enemy sat without turning it into a massive debris could that will damage/disable friendly space craft.

Space is the next revolution in warfare.

Think about a constellation of 24 sats armed with rail guns and or depleted uranium penetrators. They could give 24/7 coverage to the entire planet and fire support for our troops would be seconds away. The kinetic energy carried by one of those depleted uranium penetrators dubbed 'thunder rods' would be hiroshima like. It could also changed how we look at our strategic forces, with a constellation of said satellites we could launch preemptive non-nuclear strikes against other countries nuclear assests with little to no warning, no defense, and the effect of tactical nuclear weapons with out the political and radioactive fallout. Such a trick might just come in handy someday with the PRC.

Posted: 5/17/2002 7:41:44 AM EDT

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Wonder where the now Russian laser program is now ?

Posted: 5/17/2002 7:52:16 AM EDT

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Wonder where the now Russian laser program is now ?

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Considering Russia's knack for banging together flight hardware quickly, quietly, and cheaply, I'd have to say it's most likley in orbit [v]

I know that they launched an anti satilite, missile test vehicle in the late 80s equiped with either an automatic cannon or laser of some type. It was launched on the test launch of the Energya HLV. It was disquised as a 'test weight'.

Posted: 5/17/2002 1:12:11 PM EDT

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the trick is to destroy the enemy sat without turning it into a massive debris could that will damage/disable friendly space craft.

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I remember a show on the Discovery channel in which they were talking about the amount of "stuff" orbiting the Earth. They said that they are tracking 9,000 objects (down to 1 inch in diameter) in orbit. [shock]

Posted: 5/17/2002 1:20:14 PM EDT

[#8]

"Throw rocks at 'em Mike. Damn big rocks!

Righto, Man!"

-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein

Posted: 5/17/2002 3:23:36 PM EDT

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the trick is to destroy the enemy sat without turning it into a massive debris could that will damage/disable friendly space craft.

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I remember a show on the Discovery channel in which they were talking about the amount of "stuff" orbiting the Earth. They said that they are tracking 9,000 objects (down to 1 inch in diameter) in orbit. [shock]

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Maybe they can get more funding for it and call it a Space sweeper and fry all the space junk in orbit.

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