Posted on 02/04/2021 5:38:53 PM PST by bitt
One year ago on the night of Jan. 7, 2020, Americans were shocked to learn that Iran had launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Iran called it “fierce revenge” for the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. As reports of the attack inundated the airwaves, viewers were left wondering what had happened — and perhaps most importantly — were there casualties?
The barrage damaged runways, tents, equipment and a helicopter, and the Pentagon acknowledged that 110 people needed to be treated later for traumatic brain injuries. No one was killed.
The remaining U.S. and coalition forces that had not been evacuated were able to take cover in bunkers, thanks to what President Donald Trump referred to at the time as an “early warning system.”
The public now knows what many in the national security community suspected: That early warning system was the Space Based Infrared System, a constellation of satellites that surveils Earth’s surface 24/7 to detect missiles. Rarely has the Defense Department offered such a high profile example of the system’s capabilities and its direct impact on the American war fighter.
This is the story of the people — the men and women of the Space Force’s 2nd Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado — who operated SBIRS that night and provided that critical early warning to seek cover. In an exclusive interview, they brought C4ISRNET behind the scenes of one of the most high profile missile attacks on American forces in recent history. In many ways, it was a night like any other, with the squadron reading the data generated by the satellites and reporting it out. But with the lives of their fellow service members on the line, the stakes had rarely felt higher.
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What do you think was in place during the Gulf War back in 91? Iraq launching scuds and folks downrange are notified to take cover. The author wants you to believe this is some new capability where in fact it’s existed for decades.
Yup...I was stationed there in 1976.
In a previous job I did a lot of the radiation testing to qualify electronic parts for the SBIRS satellites. Nice to see that it came to something.
It’s an old system! IR tech has increased greatly in recent years. All those thermal “cameras” that see if you have a high temp. for COVID used to require cooling. Not anymore.
Can somebody explain what that means? Concussions? How severe is a traumatic injury needing treatment?
Reagan’s Star Wars space based system is money in the bank.
Kamila the Honey will give this to The ChiComs, Iran, Russia and anyone else she can “leverage” to make Americans subservient...
Yep, it was Air Force personnel assigned to Air Force Space Command operating Air Force equipment. They had been re-designated as Space Force just 17 days before this attack. Nothing had really changed.
The Left is aligned with Iran. It’s been clear for some time.
The Communists marched in the streets of America to protest to killing of a terrorist.
Last summer they chanted “Death to America” as they marched on Berkeley CA
I worked on the design of the SBIRS system in Boulder, CO.
Solemaini is with his 72 succubi in the lower region. The mullas are next
Yep. The old satellites were the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites.
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