US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites
US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites::The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them.
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"Are we the baddies?"
"Our patches? They've got skulls on them..."
Man why do they have to make these cringey symbols for units like these? This is space, we should have something cooler.
Ope I see we have different tastes lmao
It probably speaks to the people that would want to join it. I'm not the target audience!
And I'm definitely in. Checks out lol, I'm a geek.
Honestly, it looks like a gamer tag icon from back in the Halo 2 days lol
US Space Force: "Stop laughing, we really do have a purpose!"
Things could get interesting if they start competing with the Navy to be another taxi service for the Marines though.
I'm willing to bet that the Navy will take over the task of commanding spaceships when we start with the space imperialism
At the very least, all their best officers will get transferred to space force. There isn't really any direct earthly parellel to space warfare and logistics, but naval warfare and logistics is as close as it gets
Submarines in particular: sealed system that moves in three dimensions.
Yeah but Space Marines though.
Yes please.
"Fuck off, boot, the moon isn't even a real deployment!"
That’s a cool logo. I wonder who designs them
It was a missed opportunity to use a Terminator on the patch.
Ya, instead we got Skeletor. Who would have thought?
I really hope they don't act out on blowing up satellites. Kessler Syndrome will ruin any hopes of future space habitation and exploration for generations to come.
Could burn out their sensors, brick the hardware or otherwise make them useless without creating a new debris cloud.
Possibly steal the satellites and deorbit them to avoid this.
All thing aside, the logo goes hard fr
Honestly thought it was clickhole content
Will they take out their own satellites too? Since they spy on their own citizens...
Satellites aren't the spying medium I'm worried about
CoD: Infinite Warfare
From the article, "These systems range from ground-based lasers that can blind optical sensors on satellites to devices that can jam signals or conduct cyberattacks to hack into adversary satellite systems."
If that guy could read I think he’d be mightily offended.
I was about to comment “I wonder what techniques they’ll use to disable satellites without blowing them to dangerous smithereens.”
But I see you’ve assumed they’re idiots and will do exactly that. I think you could give people a little more credit. They’re at least as knowledgeable as you, random internet person.
It wouldn't be the first time a military would blow up something in orbit just to see it go kaboom.
But wait! There's more. My favorite space fuckup is the West Ford project. What's better than crushing the existing satellites into million pieces, you ask? Skipping the satellite phase, and bringing up the millions of pieces just to releaae them into orbit deliberately.
The History of Space Debris - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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