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Defense Secretary Mark Esper: Beijing & Moscow have Weaponized Space through Killer Satellites, Directed Energy Weapons’
Sociable.co ^ | September 16, 2020 | Tim Hinchliffe

Posted on 09/17/2020 7:57:52 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says that China and Russia have weaponized space through “killer satellites” and directed energy weapons designed to exploit and weaken the US military.

The Department of Defense [DoD] sees its adversaries advancing their military technologies, and so it is doubling down on its own.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; killersatellites; markesper; russia; spaceforce; spaceweapons; trump
Wow! I wonder if one of these direct energy weapons could be the cause of some of these fires?
1 posted on 09/17/2020 7:57:52 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

Original article says “are developing directed energy weapons to exploit U.S. systems” not “have developed”.

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2349408/esper-speaks-at-air-force-association-conference/


2 posted on 09/17/2020 8:02:41 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: White Lives Matter

And yet Netflix continues to think President Trump’s “Space Force” is a joke. There were probably people like them laughing at the idea that Japan would have the technology to attack our modern Navy in 1941.


3 posted on 09/17/2020 8:08:18 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: White Lives Matter

If they have now, then we did 15 years ago. And I’m really good with that.


4 posted on 09/17/2020 8:14:54 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts)
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To: dynoman

He is quoted as saying they have. Here is a video in the first link of him saying it:

https://www.express.co.uk/videos/6191658484001/China-and-Russia-have-weaponised-space-says-Mark-Esper

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/china-russia-have-weaponised-space-22697271

https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-russia-have-weaponized-space-defense-secretary_3503562.html


5 posted on 09/17/2020 8:20:04 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

Sometimes I think Trump is subtly trying to trigger the CCP.


6 posted on 09/17/2020 8:24:32 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: White Lives Matter
Maybe the GOLDENEYE was responsible for fires?
7 posted on 09/17/2020 9:46:12 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: White Lives Matter

No that sounds pretty insane actually.

And honestly I don’t like the term White lives matter any more than I like black lives matter.

But to each his own :-)


8 posted on 09/17/2020 9:57:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABO UT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: White Lives Matter

“US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says that China and Russia have weaponized space through “killer satellites” and directed energy weapons designed to exploit and weaken the US military. “

TRUE. But so have we. And it was done back in the late 70’s. The Russians did a test over the US and shot down one of their own dead satellites. I watched the test. The FAA monitored it. The scientist who built the weapon defected to the US and helped us build a similar weapon.


9 posted on 09/18/2020 12:02:28 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Yeah? So Esper, what are you going to do about it?


10 posted on 09/18/2020 5:34:08 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s Mig-31D and a 79M6 missile.
USAF had similar setup with hot rodded F-15 by 1985.
If there is a direct energy weapon it seems like the one radiating Esper’s tinfoil hat.


11 posted on 09/18/2020 8:13:29 PM PDT by NorseViking
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