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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 16 2019, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the space-ace dept.

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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast's lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @03:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @03:53PM (#932873)

    Hunter-killer satellites that can maneuver to a different orbit and destroy another satellite. Easy to do,

    Only in concept.

    X-37B?

    After all, it spends most of its time just hanging around in orbit, maneuvering, doing whatever it does. Don't be fooled by the wings, they're only for re-entry and gliding back to the home base to allow for re-arming/provisioning for the next mission..see it for what it is, a reusable multipurpose MILSAT masquerading as a dinky wee space plane, with a payload bay capable of carrying mission pods for surveillance, H-K duties, name your own poison...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @04:38PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @04:38PM (#932895)

    should have added, H-K duties, 'killing' a satellite doesn't necessarily mean having to blow the bugger to smithereens..