The war in space is no longer science fiction: the confrontation between China and the Russian Federation has become a reality. The Economist writes about it.
The publication provides a number of facts that a number of states use space for military purposes.
"In October, Russia launched" Space 2570 ", the last" Matryoshka "in orbit: released the second satellite, which then released the third. For the American command similar things look like a test of" killer machines ", that is, a projectile for the destruction of satellites ...
Two recently launched space ships, reduced versions of space shuttle. The American X37-B started from Cape Canaveral on December 28. Chinese schinlol, or Divine Dragon, was raised two weeks earlier.
On January 28, Iran stated that he launched three satellites; Western countries fear that they can be used in their ballistic missiles. ”
General John Shaw, a former deputy chairman of the Space Command, claims that the world has entered the Third Space Age.
Admiral Christopher Grady, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Committee of Chiefs of Staff of America, says even more frankly: "Cosmos became our most important area of hostilities."
