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Russian 'star wars' missile designed to shoot down satellites, nukes and orbital hypersonic weapons enters service amid tensions with the West
2021-12-29
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] So much for 'Space Tourism'
  • Russian S-550 missile system has entered active service, security source said

  • 'Star wars' missile thought to be capable of shooting down targets in space

  • S-550 could target low-orbit satellites, nukes, and orbital hypersonic weapons

  • Putin has been bulking up his military while ramping up tensions with the West
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  There's a project for Musk: Put a quad of VLS cells on top of a Falcon Super-Heavy. Then you can dispense several kinds of bad news.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-29 15:41  

#2  In Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, one of those F-15 borne ASAT missiles was dusted off and used. They actually got a petite female pilot to fly the mission to get the last bit of altitude before launch.

Today they'd figure out how to launch an SM-6 from some sort of high-altitude / high-performance platform.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-29 15:38  

#1  Till Congress stopped it, there was a program with F-15s delivering anti-satellite capability. Wonder if they kept the records?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-29 15:28  

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