![]() ![]() The country relies heavily on its satellites to transmit signals for GPS, credit-card transactions, hospital systems, television stations, weather reports the list goes on and on. more than anyone else, space war could be ruinous. And then which satellites, and which services civilization depends on, would be destroyed?įor the U.S. ![]() might have retaliated, perhaps by destroying a Russian spacecraft, and we might have had a space war. Cosmos 2542 could have been equipped to interfere with or damage USA 245 or to blow it to pieces. Nor is it war from the highest of all military high grounds: “Satellites don't ‘drop’ bombs,” Grego says, “and aren't faster, better or less expensive than other ways of bombing.” Space war is war on satellites. Space war is not warfighters shooting one another in space. Laura Grego, an astrophysicist who studies space technology, saw the tweets she catalogues satellites, so she has been reading amateur watchers’ communications, she says, “since before Twitter was invented.” One country's satellite stalking another's is exactly what people like Grego, who worry about space war, worry about. “This is all circumstantial evidence,” the watcher wrote, but “a hell of a lot of circumstances make it look like a known Russian inspection satellite is currently inspecting a known U.S. could "amass firepower" in the region by arming drones, Wilsbach said, and the upcoming new B-21 Raider bomber, which just rolled out of its hangar to be viewed for the first time in December, could "be helpful in our mission here.On January 30, 2020, an amateur satellite watcher tweeted, “Something to potentially watch.” Cosmos 2542, a Russian inspection satellite, was “loitering around” USA 245, an American spy satellite, and, he wrote, “as I'm typing this, that offset distance shifts between 150 and 300 kilometers.” USA 245 then adjusted its orbit to get away from Cosmos 2542, which in turn tweaked its own orbit to get closer again. Just last month, Wilsbach said, the Chinese Coast Guard performed a "lasing" of a Philippine Coast Guard aircraft "with a military-grade laser which could very well have caused physical harm to the crew." where that pilot did not ensure that there was his-tail-to-our-wing clearance, and our aircraft actually had to maneuver to keep a collision from happening," Wilsbach said.īefore that, an Australian P-8 maritime patrol aircraft had a run-in with a Chinese fighter in May 2022, and the Chinese fighter "dispensed chaff that went down the engine and then also bounced off of the leading edge of the wing," damaging the P-8. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft in December 2022, a Chinese fighter "got very dangerously close. and China, culminating in the spy balloon that crossed North America before being shot down off the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. The last year has seen an escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and its international partner militaries are planning and practicing together a lot more and that wings within his command frequently practice the Air Force's strategy of dispersing crews and aircraft across "many, many islands." To prepare for a potential conflict in the region, Wilsbach said the U.S. ![]() "Sinking ships is a main objective of not only PACAF but really anyone that's going to be involved in a conflict like this." "We've got to sink the ships," Wilsbach said. ![]()
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