US gets a space weapon: how the military wants to destroy the satellites of enemies
The US Defense Ministry notes that from potential contractors among defense companies, he needs contractors who offer ideas related to the "space advantage". The US Air Force defines the cosmic advantage as "the degree of controlling in space of one force over any other, which allows it to perform its operations at the present time and in this place without prohibitory intervention by land or space threats.
" In other words, Darpa wants to get ideas for new space base weapons that can protect American satellites from damage or disruption of enemy systems, as well as systems capable of carrying out their own attacks. In particular, Darpa wants companies to represent "new methods and technologies that can give fighters revolutionary opportunities to protect space systems.
" According to Darpa statement, this proposal is part of the Initiative of the Agency for Investing Secret Innovation in Defense and Government Systems "(Bridges) aimed at linking innovative companies with government agencies to solve" complex problems that exist in Secret sphere. " The Space. com portal notes that such ideas can be very diverse: from laid missiles designed to destroy satellites to the lasers of space base, designed to blind the optics of the enemy satellites.
Other approaches can be based on the use of radio frequency obstacles, cyberattacks at land stations, land lasers aimed at satellites, and even more exotic concepts, such as space -based chemical sprays. Since the world superpowers are increasingly challenging their advantage in space, in space, according to the portal, new space races are raised, in the center of which it will be possible to neutralize the enemy's satellites in the orbit of the Earth.