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Space Force Has A Unit Dedicated To Orbital Warfare That Now Operates The X-37B Spaceplane
The Drive ^ | October 30, 2020 | Joseph Trevithick

Posted on 10/31/2020 3:55:31 AM PDT by Candor7

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X37B Space Plane (Transatmospheric)

Chains of Command


1 posted on 10/31/2020 3:55:31 AM PDT by Candor7
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To: Candor7
Frist Space Force recruits.

Our enemies must be shaking in their boots.

2 posted on 10/31/2020 4:01:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Candor7

Why in the fk would these dumbasses publish this information. These moon bats need a class on OpSec TODAY.

Total idiots. Fail


3 posted on 10/31/2020 4:09:16 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: CodeToad; Squantos

Ping


4 posted on 10/31/2020 4:16:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Candor7

Space Delta 9, Detachment 1 is the one to watch - just a hunch


5 posted on 10/31/2020 4:16:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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“Why in the fk would these dumbasses publish this information”

The US regularly publishes information on its weapons. As does every other world power. The intent is to prevent potential opponents from thinking they have such an advantage in a particular area of warfare that they decide to go to war. It is for deterrence. China has published data and demonstrated several times that it can shoot down intel satellites. China has also launched geostationary satellites, which are much higher up and harder to shoot at. These reportedly have much of the capability of their more vulnerable low-orbit analogs. The US is putting the world on notice that it can shoot down pretty much anything by taking a missile into orbit and launching it from there. (That’s just one of the implications of the article. But it surely won’t be missed by the Chinese.)

The idea of weapons is that they are not secret. If they were secret they would not have any deterrent effect.

Due to the disparity in local navies between the US (which has something like 239 major ships worldwide) and China, which has over 400 smaller ships indicates that the US has lost local deterrence regarding preventing China from taking Taiwan. The US is telling China that its satellites, which give it a decided advantage in using its impressive long range anti-ship capability, is not the advantage China thinks it is.

The object is to avoid a major power war by reestablishing a deterrent to that war. If the US can stave off a Chinese initiated major power war long enough, it is likely that the CCP will collapse and China will fractionate into many smaller powers that will be fighting amongst each other.


6 posted on 10/31/2020 4:20:14 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: eartick

Why in the fk would these dumbasses publish this information.

because it tells you absolutely nothing of importance?


7 posted on 10/31/2020 4:20:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SkyPilot

Our enemies must be shaking in their boots. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Apparently its not how you jack but how you hack that matters?

And the smaller you are, the less payload cost and the less oxygen you use?

Tatooine can’t be far away.


8 posted on 10/31/2020 4:21:06 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SkyPilot

Space D&D.


9 posted on 10/31/2020 4:25:10 AM PDT by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: Candor7

The X37 in the photo looks like space shuttle debris.

Just sayin’.


10 posted on 10/31/2020 4:37:39 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowi)
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To: Gen.Blather
The idea of weapons is that they are not secret. If they were secret they would not have any deterrent effect.

Reminds me of the line out of the movie "Dr. Strangelove". "Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?"

11 posted on 10/31/2020 4:45:12 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: IncPen

Like it has been on an extended deployment in space. Look closely at a US Navy surface warship that has been on an extended patrol and you will see plenty of rust stains and discoloration.


12 posted on 10/31/2020 5:05:47 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Candor7

Which unit flies the reverse-engineered flying saucers out of the secret moon base?


13 posted on 10/31/2020 5:14:36 AM PDT by I-ambush (Got arrested for inciting a peaceful riot)
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To: I-ambush

The WSS (Weltraum Schutzstaffel)


14 posted on 10/31/2020 5:23:00 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Rockingham

I was on one of those forward deployed (the Med, homeport Naples) U.S. warships (a DE, looking for Russian subs) for two years. Toward the end of that time, the ship had collected more than its share of rust stains, but we could literally run circles around the freshly painted Russian cruisers that attempted to shoulder us out of the way.


15 posted on 10/31/2020 5:34:54 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III (for)
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To: Candor7


The badges seem vaguely...familiar.



16 posted on 10/31/2020 5:43:52 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Well stated, sir,


17 posted on 10/31/2020 5:58:50 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Gen.Blather

Well stated, sir.I see you’ve given this briefing before.


18 posted on 10/31/2020 6:01:33 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: Bratch

...seeing as the United States Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy, but they have their own distinctive uniforms, will the folks in the United States Space Force eventually get their own distinct uniforms or will they continue to wear Air Force Blue.....?? jus’ askin’ ...


19 posted on 10/31/2020 6:16:57 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Candor7

Just noting that the Space Operations Command logo is shaped like the Aurora while the others aren’t.


20 posted on 10/31/2020 6:21:44 AM PDT by PAR35
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