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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77112757:MV80MjExMTM4Xzc2NjAxNTMzXzI0RjlFQjJB] [quote:darth:MV80MjExMTM4Xzc2NTk2MDU4X0Y1RTk3RkE5] I worked on Reagan's Star Wars projects in the 1980s and on advanced aerospace tech in the 1990s. Retired in 2002 so my knowledge is out of date. However, I saw tech in the 1980s over 30 years ago that was mind blowing. How about a solid state energy weapon that could be easily deployed in space? It did not require the large, vibrating power sources of a laser. Not only that, it did not have to actually contact the target. Simply a near miss would melt the offending spacecraft. We called that one the Photon Torpedo. How about an interceptor that was created using 3D printing that weighed less than one kilogram and could be fired out of a rail gun at 100,000 Gs? We actually had the beginning of that tech way back then. I would bet that we can now produce an entire solid state interceptor that is autonomous and weighs about one gram. It is totally within the realm of our technology. Even one gram hitting your spacecraft at orbital velocities means destruction. There was more. One spacecraft could slowly disable an enemy satellite without them understanding how we did such a thing. BTW, China is already building their space force with anti-satellite weapons. I would not be surprised if they were stationing nukes in high orbit ready for a surprise strike. We would have no warning of such since they would reenter from directly overhead. We either beat them or suffer Pearl Harbor in outer space. Without our satellites providing recon, comms, GPS, etc. we will lose a regional war. We don't have a choice in this matter. [/quote] How about an OP that wears military uniforms from the army navy store so he can pretend to be someone he’s not? [/quote]
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Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast’s lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever.
Interesting article. I believe this guy.
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