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Friday, December 04, 2015

Russia Flight Tests Anti-Satellite Missile

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.

It was the first successful test in three attempts, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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.

A Pentagon spokesman had no immediate comment on the Russian missile test.

Air Force Space Command commander Gen. John Hyten warned this month that both Russia and China are developing space warfare capabilities that threaten critical U.S. satellites.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reagan tried to talk sense to us about "Star Wars".However,I don't consider Putin the threat that previous Soviet leaders were.He's sort of an ally it appears.

Anonymous said...

Russia and China have no choose since the USG is the biggest threat to world peace.

Anonymous said...

Dont think for a minute we dont have a defence for that type of attack we also have the offencive capability as well..

Anonymous said...

Where's our missile for this purpose? We should already have proven models, but I'll bet we're just saying "oh crap, we should start making one of these!"

Thank your Commander in Chief for that.

Anonymous said...

A Doobie brother had the answer 5:52! goggle it on youtube. thats all i say. Put some effort into it and learn something.