Americu.cks on a suicide watch.
>Russia carried out the first successful flight test of a new anti-satellite missile this month, marking a new phase in the global militarization of space.
>The flight test of Russia’s direct ascent anti-satellite missile, known as Nudol, took place Nov. 18, according to defense officials familiar with reports of the test.
>With the successful anti-satellite missile test, Russia has joined China in arming its forces with strategic space warfare weapons.
Twenty days earlier China conducted a flight test of its anti-satellite missile. The Dong Neng-3 direct ascent missile was tested on Oct. 30 in western China.
>Little information is available on the secretive Russian program. However, as with China, the Russian direct ascent missile appears linked to its missile defense programs.
Russian state-run press reports have identified the mobile transporter-launcher for what is described as “a new Russian long-range missile defense and space defense intercept complex.” The weapon is “being developed within the scope of the Nudol OKR [experimental development project],” Novosti reported in 2014.
>The new weapon is being developed by the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-conducts-successful-flight-test-of-anti-satellite-missile/
>>28065871
Goodie, more nations with little to no regard for Kessler syndrome rattling their sabres.
Guess what.
Shit isn't going to stop them losing a war when they rely on GPS satellites too, not that having no GPS would stop them getting stomped anyway. Anyone launching ASATs is getting hatefucked to death by everyone else on the planet.
You want to stir up feelings of war and hatred within the western world? Blow up a satellite. Guarantee you'll not see a more furious public when you disrupt Facebook.
>>28065871
gee ivan, how that garmin of yours gonna work without those sats ?
>>28065871
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT
Good for them it only took 31 years for them to catch up to the US.
>>28065928
>dat fuckign butthurt
>>28065976
The comparable tech was done just a few years ago in the U.S.
>>28065871
lol vatnik thinks we abandoned star wars missle defense system.
we've had anti-satellite capabilities for decades, ivan. we just dont talk about it becuase it violates treaties.
last time you guys got in an arms race with us we bankrupted your country. would you like to see us do it again? :)
>>28066360
Too late, already bankrupt...
>>28066320
sure, it wasn't developed in the 70's and perfected in the 80's
>>28065871
>tensions between U.S. and Russia hit a boiling point
>Russia launches anti-sat missiles at U.S. satellites
>as the Russians track their missile, something strange happens
>seemingly long dead pieces of space junk maneuver into anti sat missiles path
>missiles are intercepted by space junk and destroyed
>DARPA engineer commended for an idea he got while watching Mad Max Fury Road
BEAT THAT PINKO SCUM
>>28065871
Haven't anti satellite missiles been around for fucking ever?
I don't get it, what's the big deal?
Are you going to tell me Russia developed their own microwave next?
>>28066934
I guess the difference between earlier anti-sat missiles developed in the 1970's/1980's and that with the ones in development and testing phases right now is that the former could only reach LEO (Low-Earth Orbit) sattelites and that the latter, the current ones, are able to to reach higher altitudes. Perhaps all the way to GSO (Geo-Synchronous/Stationary Orbit)
>>28066934
It's a big deal because it's Russian. America is expected to be the best, so it makes headlines when other countries...not quite catch up, but catch up into what looks like the same ballpark to laymen.
>>28066864
RIP everything in orbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
>>28067183
But the ballpark is the end if satellite destruction is the goal. It's not like we can double shoot down a satellite to show them up.
They didn't catch up, they just finally finished the damn race. The race we won when their current runner wasn't born yet.
>>28067275
We need to send a giant baseball mitt into space to catch all the space debris and throw it either back at earth or into space.
>>28067351
Nope. Lasers for frying things w/o worrying about Kessler syndrome (overrated btw), refraction systems for pseudo-cloaking, micro-sat constellations, nanoparticle mist decoys for faking destruction, maneuvering thrusters for altering orbits, multi-warhead buses...it's a standard arms race.
This is news because Russia finally entered the competition. They're still half a marathon behind the US.
>>28067409
I want time to go back 100 years so a moron can still invent non-computer related things in their garage without 10 billion dollars worth of equipment.
>>28067409
>lasers
>working for anything beyond missile defense
Apparently atmospheric diffraction is just a theory.
I know it's already been mentioned, but fuck any country that test/uses anti-satellite weapons. I know it's already been mentioned, but a Kessler event would be a global disaster for the modern world. We'd need to develop brand new (expensive) tech to clean up the mess.
>>28067409
>Kessler syndrome (overrated btw)
It's so over rated that the International Space Station already has a protocol in place for space debris which they actually use and has fucking escape pods in case they need to abandon the station. But yeah, totally over rated.
