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Harris says US will not engage in anti-satellite missile tests
The hill ^ | 04/18/2022 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 04/18/2022 5:50:06 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Vice President Harris on Monday announced the U.S. will avoid testing anti-satellite missiles, urging other nations to follow the lead of the Biden administration after a Russian test last November created a field of debris in space.

Harris announced the self-imposed ban on the tests, known as direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing, during a visit to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Administration officials expressed hope that the policy would become an international norm for other nations to abide by, calling the anti-satellite missile tests “one of the most pressing threats to the security and sustainability of space.”

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KEYWORDS: antisatellite; harris; missile; tests
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Global warming or something?? (S)
1 posted on 04/18/2022 5:50:06 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty sure the China people did this first.


2 posted on 04/18/2022 5:52:16 PM PDT by algore
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just one more colossal WTF moment!

Everybody in China and Russia getting a “covid” bonus...

Same freaking kind of costly (in terms of American lives) decision made by Wilson, FDR, Truman, and LBJ...


3 posted on 04/18/2022 5:55:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well thank goodness someone isn’t..err 🤔


4 posted on 04/18/2022 5:56:42 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is like unilateral disarmament. A sign of mental deficiency at the highest level of government.


5 posted on 04/18/2022 5:56:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: algore

More unilateral disarmament. We end up tying our OWN arms behind our backs, while the Chinese and others continue to deliver repeated fetches upside the head.

Ain’t no way to run a railroad.


6 posted on 04/18/2022 5:57:38 PM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s hear it for our next dumb-dumb President, Jan. 21, 2023!


7 posted on 04/18/2022 5:58:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hopefully, we have deployed killer satellites and have anti-satellite missiles deployed. Computer simulation software is highly capable, so I’m good with that.


8 posted on 04/18/2022 5:59:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my b"ack for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That means it’s already a done deal.


9 posted on 04/18/2022 6:02:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Soon she’ll say if we are attacked we will not defend ourselves at the risk of harming immigrants.


10 posted on 04/18/2022 6:02:33 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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Vice President Harris on Monday announced the U.S. will avoid testing anti-satellite missiles,

It’s amazing this beyotch even knows what a satellite is.

11 posted on 04/18/2022 6:03:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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“It’s amazing this beyotch even knows what a satellite is.”

She knows what a missile is.


12 posted on 04/18/2022 6:11:02 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How about they test the system out by shooting laser beams at all the space junk flying around up there.
13 posted on 04/18/2022 6:11:29 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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...Computer simulation software is highly capable, so I’m good with that...

35 years in the nuclear and aerospace industries has convinced me that sometimes it is capable, and sometimes it is completely bogus.

And, the only way to know the difference for sure is a real test with real hardware.

14 posted on 04/18/2022 6:17:13 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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She knows what a missile is.

LOL. You mean like Willie Brown? 😀🤗

15 posted on 04/18/2022 6:18:16 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: alternatives?

Politically connected meat missile?


16 posted on 04/18/2022 6:20:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Harris doesn’t want her return flight from Pluto shot down.


17 posted on 04/18/2022 6:29:34 PM PDT by Zathras
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“..U.S. will avoid testing anti-satellite missiles, urging other nations to follow the lead of the Biden administration...”

I can’t think of any nation following Biden’s lead in anything!!


18 posted on 04/18/2022 6:34:42 PM PDT by elpadre (W)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I doubt she has any idea what she is talking about.


19 posted on 04/18/2022 6:37:02 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: CurlyDave

“..only way to know the difference for sure is a real test with real hardware..”

The only fact of which we can be certain; computer simulation is often wrong.

Check our weather computers. How many paths do hurricanes predict?

What about our health scientific computers estimating the number of COVID deaths?

and on and on!!!


20 posted on 04/18/2022 6:39:31 PM PDT by elpadre (W)
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