RAND Corporation… Vulnerabilities Viewed
[SatNews] The RAND Corporation has released a new report entitled “Deterrence and First-Strike Stability in Space: A Preliminary Assessment”.
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India — In An Anti-Satellite Mood
India has initiated development of lasers and an exoatmospheric kill vehicle that could be combined to produce a weapon that would be able to destroy enemy satellites in orbit, the director-general of India’s defense research organization said on January 3rd.
Read MoreBoeing — MATRIX Avenges Sending UAVs Smoking
The stuff of science fiction is fiction no more — this report comes directly from the Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] which demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Read MoreUAVs Could Be A Tremendous Asset To Mexico In That Nation’s War Against Drug Cartels
Michael Webster of Right Side News reports at the site that a high ranking Mexican military officer, who says he must remain anonymous, that Mexican President Calderon asked President Obama for armed drones to track down and kill the MDC's leadership and to help in surveillance of norco-traffing and have scensors on board that will be able to track targets as small as a human carrying a weapon.
Read MoreRussia Intimates Anti-Satellite Weaponry Is Of Primary Importance
According to Yahoo! News and the Associated Press, bylined by Vladimir Isachenkov, Russia is working to develop anti-satellite weapons to match efforts by other nations, a deputy defense minister was quoted as saying last Thursday.
Read MoreU.S. Navy’s Single Shot At Satellite Successful Thanks To Sandia Supercomputer
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Red Storm supercomputer, located at its Sandia National Laboratories, helped the U.S. Navy shoot down an errant satellite in February 2008.
Read MoreSpySat Deorbitized—The World Is Safe!
According to Marine General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there is a high degree of confidence that the U.S. Navy missile launched yesterday scored a direct hit on the falling U.S. spysat, once the order to proceed had been received from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Read MoreStuffin’ The SpySat — Congratulations to the United States & The U.S. Navy — One Shot, It’s Gone!
The U.S. Navy has shot down the wayward U.S. spysat over the Pacific... the missile struck the satellite 130 miles in the atmosphere and destroyed the satellite at 10:30 EST.
Read MoreSpySat To Be Shot On Site
A Navy missile will be fired at the recalcitrant U.S. spy satellite that is heading to Earth in an attempt to reduce the re-entry remnant to negligible bits.
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