"US Military's Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes Confirmed by White House Intelligence"
TL;DR
The US faces a new threat from Russia with an emerging anti-satellite weapon that could disrupt military and civilian operations in outer space, potentially causing major economic damage. The US military has a decades-old countermeasure in place, involving sending a fighter jet to destroy the threatening satellite, a tactic successfully demonstrated in 1985 by Maj. Gen. Wilbert "Doug" Pearson Jr. using the ASM-135 missile. Despite the success, the program was discontinued due to funding cuts, and no one else has matched Pearson's achievement as a "space ace" since then.
Topics:nationmilitary-technology#anti-satellite-missile#cold-war#military-technology#russia#space-weapons#us-military
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