By Abraham Mahshie, Published by Air Force Magazine, 29 June 2021 Sanctions are crushing Russia’s efforts to counter American space superiority, but analysts have a rising concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin may link up with China’s wealth to develop the weapons that could stop American war fighters in their
By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 16 June 2021 WASHINGTON — The head of the Space Force acknowledged that the U.S. is developing the “appropriate” directed-energy systems to maintain American space superiority, although he declined to provide details in the unclassified setting of a June 16 congressional hearing. Noting that
By Lorne Cook, The Associated Press, Published by DefenseNews, 15 June 2021 BRUSSELS — NATO leaders on Monday expanded the use of their all for one, one for all, mutual defense clause to include a collective response to attacks in space. Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty states that an
By Karl Grossman, Published by Counterpunch, 11 June 2021 A “Space Warfighting Operations R&D”—being acronymed “SWORD”—laboratory “will be working in the area of autonomy to enable space systems to automatically detect and respond to threat conditions faster than a human operator could achieve,” declared Colonel Eric Felt at its opening
By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 21 May 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - US X-37 spacecraft could technically carry up to six warheads and, with the US planning to deploy eight of these by 2025, it looks like a serious challenge, the director-general of Russian defence technology company Almaz-Antey, Yan
By Karl Grossman, Published by CounterPunch 28 April, 2021 “Let’s be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back,” stated retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb in a piece in the The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization of space issue.
Image: Space War By Staff Writers for Launchspace, Published in Space War, 26 February 2021 Bethesda MD (SPX) - A new arms race is unfolding among spacefaring nations. Space experts have been telling us about contested space for the last several years. The number of active satellites is exploding from
Israel's Arrow-4 Weapon System (Israel Aerospace Industries) By Hamodia Staff, Published in hamodia.com, 18 February 2021 YERUSHALAYIM - Israel said on Thursday it is developing a new ballistic missile shield, the Arrow-4, with the United States, another layer in a defensive system built with an eye toward Iran. Israel‘s Arrow-2
