cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1402812/us-military-confirms-it-has-deployed-weapons-in-space
US military confirms it has deployed weapons in space
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/meink-space-force-on-orbit-space-control-weapons/
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/meink-space-force-on-orbit-space-control-weapons/
18 Comments
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 9d
Isn’t that illegal under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967?
twinnie@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 9d
That just includes nukes. Russia and China have both deployed weapons already.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 9d
Oh…that’s a relief…😭
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 9d
The rules are silly if it stops only yourself. I live between Russians and they constantly make fun of western anti-war rules as if we're basically tying our hands behind our back and hitting with our heads.
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 9d
And let the star wars begin, maybe the coming kessler syndrome and with the inability to escape Earth, the elites will finally take this planet seriously. I cant beleive these fucking losers run the place.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 9d
Glad to see the US is at least consistent in abandoning its own principles and treaties. /s
MangoCats@feddit.it · 3 pts · 8d
We're almost up to 6 years of practice on the consistent inconsistency.... how do you know they're lying? Well, you don't, because about 5% of what they say turns out to be true-ish sooner or later and it's all very random sounding - see, that's the genius - nobody can predict what's coming next.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 8d
The US has been saying one thing and doing another for far longer than 6 years.
MangoCats@feddit.it · 3 pts · 8d
Such has been the nature of diplomacy for the past many centuries.
What's different for 6 years, and especially the past 2-ish, is they have been saying all the things - true things, false things, but most out of character for the country - but not the clown: the things that "just weren't said" in the past.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 8d
I believe the translation of the Russian propaganda term is "Fire-hosing."
0x4f1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 8d
These weapons have existed in various forms as far back as the 1960's. Missles, lasers and satellites designed to attack other satelittes. Someone must be trying for a promotion.
axh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 9d
It might mean just an astronaut from Texas who couldn't sleep without his assault rifle
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 9d
I think it just means someone who shot at the sky with a bullet faster than earth's escape velocity.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 8d
That means each person carrying a US smartphone can be targeted from space.
MangoCats@feddit.it · 1 pts · 8d
Not just US smartphones, any device which communicates its GPS / other nav system position to an accessible network on a regular basis is basically a target that paints itself.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 8d
Yep dystopian Science Fiction style future awaits.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 8d
Can't afford to live, but at least we dominate space.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 9d
Finally all trash goes into space and we can live in freedom. Good idea from the us-military. Hope, others will follow soon.