Have Space Gun - Will Orbit
looorg writes:
The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities.
US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the "on orbit" weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action.
A US Space Force spokesperson said: "Space control encapsulates the mission areas required to contest and control the space domain - employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities through disruption, degradation and even destruction, if necessary.
Russia, China mad. Space Gun race? Still unknown, for the rest of us, what kind of weapon it is. Lasers? Kinetic rods? I guess the only thing we could sort of rule out are nukes, as those are forbidden unless the US left the Outer Space Treaty.
Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space.
Isn't more or less any kind of space weapon, something dropped or launched or whatnot, going to be a weapon of mass destruction once it reaches the surface?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck790xg41ygro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
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