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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  906 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ad Astra: The Coming Battle Over Space

LOL

70% of shuttle launches were military payloads

The USSR fired on the Columbia with a ground based laser in 1984

We've been creeping on Russian satellites since they were Soviet

We first tested air-launched ASAT missiles in 1982

Yet this article has exactly fuckall to say about China's new Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, the Soviet deployment of which led to the Outer Space Treaty.

Which China has not signed, by the way. And Trump let the INF lapse. There's nothing new here - this is just Russia and China catching up to us where we were 40 years ago because they didn't agree not to. Obviously they could... given the right concessions. Sunrise, sunset.