{"id":108402,"date":"2020-12-16T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108402"},"modified":"2020-12-16T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:20:17","slug":"russia-ups-their-anti-satellite-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108402","title":{"rendered":"Russia ups their anti-satellite game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graphic of Russian test of anti-satellite weapon from earlier this year
(Photo sun.co.uk)<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to the KoB for sending in this update on Russia’s offensive capabilities.<\/p>\n

Russia test-fired an anti-satellite missile in its pursuit to turn space into a \u201cwarfighting domain,\u201d the U.S. Space Command announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The direct-ascent, anti-satellite missile test took place Tuesday, an official at U.S. Space Command told Fox News. To date, Russia has demonstrated two types of space weapons, the agency says.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia has made space a warfighting domain by testing space-based and ground-based weapons intended to target and destroy satellites,\u201d U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson — the leader of the Space Command — said in a statement. \u201cThis fact is inconsistent with Moscow\u2019s public claims that Russia seeks to prevent conflict in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dickinson added that Moscow is looking to \u201cexploit U.S. reliance on space-based systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand ready and committed to deter aggression and defend our Nation and our allies from hostile acts in space,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Space Command says Russia has completed several tests of a ground-based weapon system \u201ccapable of destroying satellites in low Earth orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this weapon is tested on an actual satellite or used operationally, it will cause a large debris field that could endanger commercial satellites and irrevocably pollute the space domain,\u201d it warned.<\/p>\n

The other weapon system Russia has demonstrated \u2013 once in 2017 and again this year — is space-based, according to the U.S. Space Command.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the KoB for sending in this update on Russia’s offensive capabilities. Russia test-fired an anti-satellite missile in its pursuit to turn space into a \u201cwarfighting domain,\u201d the U.S. Space Command announced Wednesday. The direct-ascent, anti-satellite missile test took place Tuesday, an official at U.S. Space Command told Fox News. To date, Russia has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,406,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-guest-link","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-scq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}