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Esper: Air Force, Space Force Leading Charge to New Technologies
US DOD ^

Posted on 09/16/2020 5:22:04 PM PDT by MNDude

The last time an enemy force dropped a bomb on American troops was in the Korean War. "China and Russia, seek to erode our longstanding dominance in air power through long-range fires, anti-access/area-denial systems and other asymmetric capabilities designed to counter our strengths," he said. "Meanwhile, in space, Moscow and Beijing have turned a once peaceful arena into a warfighting domain."

China and Russia have placed weapons on satellites and are developing directed energy weapons to exploit U.S. systems "and chip away at our military advantage," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at defense.gov ...


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1 posted on 09/16/2020 5:22:04 PM PDT by MNDude
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2 posted on 09/16/2020 5:26:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
There was a period when we were virtually uncontested in Space.

We could have used it to exert dominance and peace over the entire earth.

Instead, we gave it away at the insistence of the globalists in the State Department.

Now we have to fight for it.

3 posted on 09/16/2020 5:36:22 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

I agree.

Similarly, in 1945 we could have announced that no country on Earth was allowed to develop atomic weapons. If they tried — if they tested one — we would nuke their capitol. Even our good friends the Brits: if Winston Churchill tested an a-bomb, we’d nuke London. The rules applies to everyone.

We’d like in a nuclear-free world, and no country on the planet would have any hope of standing up to us. The last 75 years would have been very different. We could have been a very great force for Good.


4 posted on 09/16/2020 5:39:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: marktwain

Which explains Trump’s Space Force.


5 posted on 09/16/2020 5:42:28 PM PDT by MNDude
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6 posted on 09/16/2020 5:47:30 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: marktwain

Instead, we gave it away at the insistence of the globalists in the State Department.

The treasonous Clinton are probably the ones the most responsible, especially when it comes to the ChiComs. They sold/gave them tech that allowed them to advance a decade in a matter of months.


7 posted on 09/16/2020 5:56:20 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Repeal The 17th

GORT: “We warned you gomers to chill out the people of this planet once before. You didn’t. Prepare for the intergalactic ZOT!”


8 posted on 09/16/2020 5:59:03 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: MNDude

I dont believe for a minute that we don’t have weapons in space.


9 posted on 09/16/2020 6:04:33 PM PDT by 98charlie
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To: 98charlie

Like Rods from God?


10 posted on 09/16/2020 6:09:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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Like Rods from God?
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And those unexpected cave-ins of North Korea’s testing facilities?


11 posted on 09/16/2020 6:15:14 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
We could have demanded that the only nuclear power generators that countries could build would be thorium based ones.

But then that would have made the short-sighted generals mad.

12 posted on 09/16/2020 6:25:56 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: EEGator

“Like Rods from God?”
You don’t believe all those “satellite failed to reach specified orbit” missions were actually failures do you?


13 posted on 09/16/2020 7:00:36 PM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: MNDude
What was discussed in this article and what you are envisioning is only one buckle on a life jacket on a ship in a fleet headed to a new continent.

The Space Force will be so much more than that.

Steven Kwast | The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force

Dont just listen to what he says. Understand what he infers also. Sometimes what he doesnt say is more important than what he does. "Tomorrow" is already yesterday.

14 posted on 09/16/2020 7:57:40 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: JCL3; EEGator
"Like Rods from God?"

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And those unexpected cave-ins of North Korea’s testing facilities?"

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With zero evidence of kinetic impact sites showing up -- across the entire electromagnetic & vibrational spectra?

Dream on, wishful guessers! That was explosion cavity collapse --- pure and simple.

And "scientists" do not enter sites near recent thermonuclear explosions.

Ask the guys who worked here: Lat: 37.110982 Lon: -116.053917

Get real.

TXnMA   
  

15 posted on 09/16/2020 8:05:06 PM PDT by TXnMA (Democrat Party's sole 2020 platform plank: HATRED...)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Best Movie Robot Ever...


16 posted on 09/16/2020 8:42:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


17 posted on 09/17/2020 2:34:12 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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