space weapons

  1. Grey Havoc

    Commandement des Opérations Espace

    This thread is for the new High Command (or grand operations command in the French air force's parlance) for Space Operations of the Armée de l'Air Française that President Macron has just announced. A Space Force in other words. Apparently Macron intends to eventually rename the air force as...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 21st century anti-satellite armeé de l'air armée de l'air et de l'espace asat cold war ii france french fifth republic space weapons
    • Replies: 28
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  2. Sferrin

    Defense against Hypersonic Glide Vehicles

    Just starting a generic thread here to discuss possibilities and programs. Saw the following in an AvWeek article: "These include a new family of interceptor missiles called SkyFire proposed by Raytheon; hypervelocity projectiles designed by General Atomics, Boeing and BAE Systems; a laser gun...
    • Sferrin
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    • air defence ballistic missile defense cold war ii european union hypersonic hypersonics icbm north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield space weapons strategic defence surface-to-air missile united states
    • Replies: 968
    • Forum: Military
  3. VTOLicious

    The US Space Force

    ::) View: https://youtu.be/3T_nwIe8td4
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    • anti-satellite asat cold war ii nuclear battlefield satellite space development agency space weapons united states united states space force
    • Replies: 1,538
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. Flyaway

    Black Ops And The Shuttle

    http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1 Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle by Dwayne A. Day Monday, December 11, 2017
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s cold war national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system space weapons spy sat strategic defense initiative strategic reconnaissance united states air force
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  5. Triton

    Opinion: Why America Needs A Space Corps

    I thought that this article was interesting for discussion purposes. "Opinion: Why America Needs A Space Corps" M. V. Smith | Aviation Week & Space Technology April 5, 2017 Source: http://aviationweek.com/space/opinion-why-america-needs-space-corps
    • Triton
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    • 2020s anti-satellite asat cold war ii electronic warfare late 2010s post-cold war space weapons united states united states air force united states space force
    • Replies: 139
    • Forum: The Bar
  6. Grey Havoc

    Russian Space Program

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-space-delays-idUSKBN1590Y6
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    • anti-satellite asat cccp cold war ii deep space probes post-cold war roscosmos russian federation satellite soviet union space probes space weapons
    • Replies: 722
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. A

    China ASAT laser weapons activities

    Hi there, Time is ripe to open this thread. 863 and super-893 programs have matured up to the point where we should be connecting the dots. Based on recently published information by the [Elixir] organization, which would be nice to collectively fact check, China might have tested one of its...
    • antigravite
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    • asat cold war ii orbital denial people's liberation army aerospace force people's liberation army strategic support force people's republic of china space weapons
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  8. bobbymike

    Atlantic Council - Future Warfare in Space

    Fighting For the Final Frontier? Conflict in Space During the Late 21st Century http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/david-brin-05182015?utm_content=buffer3e139&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Monday 1pm eastern link to watch event live.
  9. hesham

    Electron ray for space test 1986

    Hi, an old system to use Electron ray against space targets in 1986 in USA,designed by Sandia Labs and sponsored by Air Force Weapons Laboratory and DARPA. page 81...
    • hesham
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    • 1986 air force weapons laboratory anti-satellite cold war late 1980s sandia laboratories space weapons strategic defense initiative united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  10. S

    List all weapons developed for SDI ?

    List all weapons of SDI ? - Braduskill - X-Ray Laser - NPB Neutral Particle Beam - SBL Space Based Laser - HVG HyperVelocity rail Gun - GBL Ground Based Laser - SBKKV Space Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle - BP Brilliant Pebbles
  11. Sferrin

    Chinese lunar missile base

    Trying to nuke someone on Earth from the moon would be about as inefficient as you could do it. We'd see them coming for days.
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    • icbm moon moonbase people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china post-cold war space weapons
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Military
  12. Triton

    US planned to nuke the moon

    "Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon" Published: 26 November, 2012, 21:13 Source: https://rt.com/usa/news/us-moon-nuclear-project-631/
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    • cccp cold war lunar missile gap moon nuclear battlefield project a119 space age space probes space race space weapons united states usaf ussr
    • Replies: 70
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  13. flateric

    OKB-155 (Mikoyan) ASAT

    R-7 launched ASAT system (ca.1958-1959) from MiG museum. Photos (1,2) (c) Vadim Lukashevich (www.buran.ru), (3,4) (c) Sergey Kuznetcov aka Pilot (www.pilot.strizhi.info)
    • flateric
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    • asat cold war orbital denial soviet strategic missile troops soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space weapons ussr
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  14. The Artist

    Boeing TAV - was this speculation or a serious concept?

    Back in 1985 Aviation Week ran a piece of Boeing art with an article on a White House Aeronautics policy. The art depicted what I took to be a transport TAV in Boeing house colors. This attachment is a drawing I did when I saw that article and I'm posting it here to support my question. Does...
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    • 1980s boeing cold war single-stage-to-orbit space age space race space weapons ssto strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Theoretical, Fake and Generic Projects
  15. bobbymike

    Chinese Say Space Weapons Inevitable

    From spacewar.com: China commander says space weapons inevitable: state media Beijing (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 A top China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an "historical inevitability", state media said Monday, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to...
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    • 2010s 2020s anti-satellite asat cold war ii late 2000s people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china post-cold war space weapons war on terror
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    • Forum: The Bar
  16. Triton

    Orbital Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) - Rail Gun

    During the Strategic Defense Initiative days of the mid 1980s, one of the weapons technologies that was discussed was a Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) placed in orbit to fire at inbound ICBMs and MIRVs. Artist's conception (top) of USAF space-based hypervelocity launcher aka railgun, among kinetic...
    • Triton
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    • 1980s ballistic missile defense cold war space age space race space weapons strategic defense initiative united states air force
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  17. M

    MRV, MIRV, MARV, and FOBS Projects

    Hi everybody Chevaline MRV and Polaris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/polaris.htm Poseidon and Trident with 14 MIRVs http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/slbm/c-3.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/trident.htm ICBM-X with 20 MIRVs or more ...
    • moin1900
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    • cold war red fleet royal navy soviet strategic rocket forces space weapons strategic air command united states air force united states army united states navy
    • Replies: 57
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  18. flateric

    Energia - Buran Space Transportation System

    It was 20 years ago, 15.11.1988... (c) RKK Energia - taken from www.buran.ru
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    • 1970s 1980s cccp cold war early 1990s post-cold war russian space shuttle soviet strategic missile troops soviet union space age space race space shuttle space weapons strategic defence ussr
    • Replies: 747
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  19. XP67_Moonbat

    Chinese Space Program

    An article on pre-Shenzhou studies and the Shenzhou project. Check it out: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/launchpad/1921/story-7.htm You gotta love this illustration. Here you go. Moonbat
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    • anti-satellite asat china china manned space agency china manned space engineering office china national space administration lunar probes lunar robots moon people's liberation army people's republic of china planetary defence prc space space weapons
    • Replies: 2,144
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  20. shadowcat48li

    Project Orion / Project Daedalus

    I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing] this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
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    • air defense command british interplanetary society cold war deep space probes general atomics great britain nasa nuclear battlefield nuclear rockets space age space race space weapons strategic air command united states united states air force
    • Replies: 193
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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