Posted on 12/23/2016 8:20:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Russia isn't done screwing with the United States in 2016.
On Dec. 16, the Russian military reportedly tested what appears to be an anti-satellite weapon—a rocket that can boost into low orbit and smash into enemy spacecraft.
The test could be the latest sign of Russia’s intention, and improving ability, to threaten America’s hundreds of government and private spacecraft—and chip away at the United States’ military and commercial advantage in space.
It might also be the latest provocation from a Russian regime that increasingly denies any responsibility for its most destabilizing moves. That’s how Moscow can get away with hacking elections in the United States and other Western countries and invading Ukraine, among other attacks on global order.
The apparent anti-satellite (ASAT) test largely escaped public notice. The Washington Free Beacon was the first to report on the weapon’s trial, on Dec. 21—attributing the information to unnamed U.S. government sources. CNN also pointed out the test, again citing anonymous U.S. officials.
Capt. Nicholas Mercurio, a spokesman for the 14th U.S. Air Force, which oversees space systems, declined to specifically comment on the reported Russian test. “We monitor missile launches around the globe,” Mercurio told The Daily Beast, “but as a matter of policy we don’t normally discuss intelligence specific to those launches.”
For the anti-satellite test, the Russians have a tidy cover story—that the rocket isn’t actually an anti-satellite weapon, or ASAT. Instead, it’s a meant for shooting down incoming ballistic missiles.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
“It might also be the latest provocation from a Russian regime that increasingly denies any responsibility for its most destabilizing moves. That’s how Moscow can get away with hacking elections in the United States and other Western countries and invading Ukraine, among other attacks on global order.”
That statement from the article substantially reduces the credibility and characterization of the report.
If they’re issuing breast daily I’ll take them every other day so I can get them in pairs.
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Article sources Washington Free Beacon as one of the ‘first’ to report.
I’d just like to say that Matthew Continetti is the editor of WFB and is the SON-IN-LAW of Bill Kristol.
For what it’s worth, but I’ve put WFB on my “don’t bother list.”
Why wouldn’t they??? We’d be lucky if they don’t shove it up our ass before 20 Jan!! America isn’t getting any weaker as of that propitious date!
Blame it on OBAMA. Sounds nice, doesn’t it?
Putin is probing Trump to locate his defensive boundaries.
Heheh. Freudian slip on my part.
Again with this hacking BS?
You’re right. That was unfortunate.
I am no fan of Russia, but our national policy for years has been making the world safe for American conventional dominance by denuking the world. Some others who feel threatened by our unchecked reckless behavior in the name of "open democracy" are saying I don't think so.
We need to stop believing that every Saudi funded PR firm's manufacture story, published by far Leftists fake new sites, as fact.
Nope. You are just being manipulated by manufactured PR from this group
Project for the New American Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Unlike our "stabilizing" moves that threaten the rest of the world. Unfortunately instead of "peace through strength" we have been going around trying to fix the rest of the world while making strategic moves to cut Russia off from the Black Sea (Ukraine and the Crimea).
Clearly he is to blame. Didn’t he scrap NASA and allow Russian to shuttle our astronauts back and forth to space? We need out space program back.
Probably. Is the domain name available?
d=^)
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Thanks. Another think tank (neo-con in this case) built on low ground in the swamp sur Potomac.
Well, technically a rocket that just goes into orbit to ram a satellite (or even blow it up with a conventional warhead) does not violate any treaties. So Russia is as free to develop that technology as we are.
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