space weapons

A question: how hard would be to adapt an Earth-based anti-missile missile (like SM-3 or THAAD) to work as space-to-space missile on a spacecraft? To elaborate why I need it: I'm working out details for a sci-fi story, set in late XXI century. The humanity found itself in a situation of space...

As much as I'm interested in military equipment nomenclature, until today I was completely unaware that the United States Space Force has established a new designation system for its weapon systems. First published in October 2023, and amended/refined in July 2024, it is defined in Space Force...

I just read the "top level budget proposal" linked here: https://spacenews.com/white-house-budget-proposal-would-phase-out-sls-and-orion-scale-back-iss-operations/ (it was suggested by Flyaway in post #98 of the thread White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent). In the...

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-2050-kendall-forecast/...

from ARDC TR-59-64 Advanced Concepts Study, Final Report. from USAF FOIA reading room. (edit: PDF split & now attached) A JT11-7A powered Booster Airplane launches a rocket vehicle & satellite payload with two solid fuelled stages and a storable liquid propellant third and fourth stages...

Apart from on the pages of Eagle comic there is no such thing as the Royal Space Force. 1957 ;saw not just the infamous Sandys White Paper but also the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. PM Macmillan and Defence Secretary Sandys realise how vulnerable this makes the West and Britain in...

The headline is a bit misleading as the article talks in terms of anti-satellite weapon not a weapon to drop onto the planet. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/plan-to-hit-ukraine-with-a-space-rocket-offered-to-putin/ar-AA1iLXQx?cvid=135c761aea1346d2e172b5959a69a00b&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=7 The Cold War generally established the different requirements for an orbital vehicle and ICBM, so we don't see the weaponized...

I recently bought a NIB copy of the Revell "Laser Battle Stations" model kit from 1984. There were a number of other kits released at the same time that all have connections to reports and concepts (see images) but these "laser battle stations" are a bit hard to place. They appear to be modeled...

A space weapon concept model from 1961-62. More jibberjabber here: https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=5018

Most TV and Film productions use real weapons or modify them like the Sterling SMGs in Star Wars. Now and again, however, a show decides to make its own props. In 1970 Gerry Anderson released his live action series "UFO" set in a fictional 1980 where a secret organisation called SHADO battled...

space tactics, weapons and more

Incredibly hard to predict and very difficult to defend against, I think any current US anti-ballistic missile system would struggle with FOBS. A hypersonic glide vehicle and FOBS is probably the ultimate in nightmares for the western defence system...

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/08/pentagon-posed-to-unveil-classified-space-weapon/

The Russian military has finally revealed the rocket-propelled grenade weapon system developed for the Almaz space station project in the 1970s. Links: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz-shield2.html http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz_ops2.html :eek: :cool: View...

Another wonderful research from Tony Landis. PDF is too large to be attachedso there's a direct link https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2562506/a-look-backrecoverable-rocket-boosters-a-future-that-never-was/...

Guys, I am not certain exactly as to where to place this news item, but the actual article is about the plugs that block the top parts of the Minuteman 3 siloes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/09/16/us-enhances-last-line-of-nuclear-missile-silo-defense/#70b81576f568 But...

http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-weapons-of-science-fiction-m590-exo.html

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

https://www.france24.com/en/20190725-france-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons-minister https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-space-defence/france-to-launch-fearsome-surveillance-satellites-to-bolster-space-defences-idUKKCN1UK1TR?utm_source=reddit.com