The 527th Space Aggressors Squadron and 26th Space Aggressors Squadron emblems are painted side by side on doors inside the Space Aggressors' facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. Credit: US Air Force/2nd Lt. Darren Domingo
Posted on 05/29/2017 7:23:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"We play the bad guys," said Captain Christopher Barnes, chief of training for the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron. "Our job is to not only understand the different types of threats and potential enemies, but also to be able to portray them and replicate them for the good guys, our Air Force."
The 26th and 527th Space Aggressor Squadrons are headquartered in a two-story warehouse at Colorado's Schriever Air Force Base, stocked with advanced radio and satellite equipment and nicknamed "the barn." Behind the building, antenna dishes trace the sky.
While attacks by the Space Aggressors are simulated, senior US military and intelligence officials warn the threat in space is very real.
America relies heavily on space assets to project force around the globe, from launching missiles to directing warships across the seas. Indeed, the Global Positioning System, or GPS, is actually a group of 31 high-orbiting satellites owned by the US government and operated by the US Air Force.
Some worry that disrupting America's vast network of satellites and ground-based systems could send US forces back to an antiquated era of targeting, communications, and navigation systems — deeply undercutting battlefield superiority.
This spring, rhetoric from US military officials about the need to bolster American defensive position, and even offensive capabilities, in space has ratcheted up amid concern that Russia and China are rapidly developing anti-satellite weapons.
"While we're not at war in space, I don't think we could say we're exactly at peace, either," Vice Admiral Charles Richard, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, known as Stratcom, told a conference in Washington DC in March. "We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space."
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
This is not about “aliens” or other imaginary threats. The reality is that any nation that can launch a satellite can cause havoc and even massive casualties in the US utilizing modern technology that can disrupt most of what is taken for granted and essential for modern living. The nature of warfare is rapidly changing and evolving into something terrible and heretofore never seen.
If this is true, then there is absolutely NO EXCUSE to have a power grid which cannot be quickly restored in the event of an EMP attack.
In the tv series Jericho elements within our own country perpetrated an EMP attack to make the populace subservient to a new repressive government.
We have lacked true leadership for decades; hopefully something eventually comes out of this perverted drama cooked up by those perpetrating the lies distracting more than half of the country...
Concur.
If the US lost GPS and other Global communication capabilities, our ability to project force into all corners of the globe would be diminished. That would be bad, but worst case scenario we would be forced to be more isolationist. It’s not like Russia is going to invade us. Japan knew in 1941 that the US could not be invaded. That is still true. Not even by China.
So, if we lose the Space War, that doesn’t mean we will be conquered.
But if we lose the power grid, it means we take a huge — HUGE — economic hit. There is no excuse not to take steps to guard against this.
Ultimately, projecting power into Afghanistan is not our priority. Making sure that businesses can operate in Peoria is our priority.
Except for a Dark Forest strike ...
If we haven't already outfitted the X-37's "experiment bay" with a robotic arm and mined our adversaries satellites we deserve every military space failure we receive in the next war.
If Einstein was right ( and there is no evidence he was wrong) then the visit to Earth from aliens who exist hundreds of light years away is impossible. (yes impossible). No biological or mechanical entity could travel such a distance and arrive intact given the laws of physics. The fastest anything can travel is the speed of light. Anything more dense than a photon could never even get close to the speed of light. A light year is the distance traveled by a photon at 186 thousand miles per second over one year. The only aliens you need to worry about are those that don’t share your national and cultural heritage. They are right here on earth and have access to all sorts of advanced technology.
OHNOZ! Sleestak invasion imminent?
A Dark Forest strike does not involve aliens actually coming here. The universe is like a dark forest with all manner of creatures hunting prey or competitors. In this case competitors: us. Elimination of the competitors helps ensure species survival. This is why there are no other aliens for us to find - they are all hiding.
They do not have to send a space ship complete with crew or even a robot ship. All the need to do is speed a small object (made of the hardest densest material they have {your proton example is what we know, but does not account for what they know about physics}) and accelerate it up near the speed of light. Assuming they get their targeting correct, the object will have a huge mass when it smashes through the sun; the sun will explode, obliterating all the inner planets and melting Jupiter and Saturn.
Further, the aliens do not have to be millions, thousands, or hundreds of light years away. They just have to have a launching platform somewhere near stellar objects likely to produce life and launch upon detection of threat.
Since there is absolutely nothing we could possibly do to stop this sort of strike, you are correct about the local aliens and their threats.
EMP is a ‘boggie man’ and is not a danger and any number of knowledgeable FReepers will be along shortly to school you.
Resistance is Futile, eh? (emblem on the right)
Well, almost.
What if instead of traveling the vast distance, the really smart aliens bent space to make the locations closer together? (And then travelled the exponentially shorter distance.)
Alrighty, then. /s
I recall that one of the most ‘knowledgeable’ insisted that lightening proved that there is no such thing as EMP. so there/s
There was others as I have been pummeled by them all when I ran the Prepare ping list and believe you me there are far more FReepers that insist that EMP is BS than even consider it as real possibility.
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