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30 марта 2024 г. 19:28

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Война и междержавная космическая оборона

Наверное, запугивания по поводу ведения войн из космоса с помощью лазеров из спутников - это просто кликбейт и сеять спект эмоций среди землян.
Все давно уже придумано и продумано.
Вот интересные факты:

Satellites no longer just relay TV pictures and phone calls; they are vital for both daily life and modern warfare. Knocking out or blinding a satellite could mean your car’s GPS system goes blank and your bank cards stop working. When you switch on the TV to find out what’s happening you may find a blank screen. After a few days the supermarkets’ delivery systems, both to their stores and your house, would be in chaos. Without GPS ships and planes would struggle to navigate, and in an extreme scenario the electricity grid could go down. As for getting a weather forecast – forget it.
At the military level, all advanced countries rely on satellites for intelligence and surveillance. If a series of military satellites were hit, the high command would immediately worry that this was a precursor to being attacked on the ground. Early-warning systems of a nuclear launch might go down, triggering a decision on whether to launch first. Even if a conflict remained conventional the other side would have the advantage of precision-targeting its enemy and moving its own forces without being ‘seen’, even as its opponent’s ability to send encrypted communications would be limited.
This is all a very real threat. Already Russia, China, the USA, India and Israel have developed ‘satellite-killer’ systems – specialist space weapons that destroy satellites. Techniques are being invented to shoot down satellites with lasers, to ‘dazzle’ them so they cannot communicate, to spray them with chemicals, and even to ram them. And with no laws about who can be where, how close they can be and what activity is allowed, there is the growing danger of an exercise, or even faulty navigating, being mistaken for an impending attack.
The US government is working with Lockheed Martin to develop ‘Space Fence’. This is a surveillance system using ground-based radar to track satellites and orbital debris. The US Department of Defense can currently track more than 20,000 of these; it expects to increase this figure to 100,000, and to be able to identify the exact source of a laser fired at a satellite.