Shockingly, The Air Force Is Ready to Launch a New Secret Weapon of Space

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The air force is ready to unveil its secret new space weapon. The u.s air force has a top secret space weapon and is preparing to show it to the world for months the service has been preparing to declassify. The black weapon but wants to get the timing right according to a breaking defense exclusive for that to occur air force leadership and president Joe Biden must sign off first key details of the unnamed weapon system remain unknown at this time.

The system in question has long been cloaked in the blackest of black secrecy veils developed as a so-called special access program known only to a very few very senior u.s government leaders. While exactly what capability could be unveiled is unclear insiders say the reveal is likely to include a real-world demonstration of an active defense capability to degrade or destroy a target satellite and or spacecraft.

The u.s military already has several rudimentary anti-space weapons the u.s navy for instance has the sm-3 a missile originally designed to shoot down incoming ballistic missile warheads ballistic missile warheads briefly travel the same general route as satellites in low earth orbit that proved useful in 2008 when the navy used an sm-3 to destroy usa 193 a non-functioning u.s national reconnaissance office spy satellite trapped in a decaying orbit.

Other services have their own anti-space weapons too the us army's ground-based interceptor a land-based anti-ballistic missile also intercepts missile warheads in the so-called mid-course phase and theoretically has an anti-satellite capability.

Meanwhile, the u.s space force has the counter communication system a truck-based jammer designed to prevent enemy forces from accessing their own communications and navigation satellites.

Nobody outside the u.s government knows what the air force's space weapon looks like but the system is reportedly not a kinetic anti-satellite system like sm-3 or gbi one possibility is that the weapon is a ground-based laser designed to blind enemy satellites in space this would be similar to the existing russian periscope anti-satellite weapon a satellite blinding laser mounted on a heavy truck.

Russia also has the new doll ground launched anti-satellite missile and the bervestnic air launched anti-satellite missile originally insiders believed the service would declassify the weapon in late august but the report states that the air force did not want to announce the weapon while dealing with the current crisis in Afghanistan.