How the space war between the United States and Russia progresses
All the details on how the United States and Russia are moving in the article by Giuseppe Gagliano
To believe that the war between Russia and the United States takes place only in the Ukrainian context would be a pure illusion as evidenced by the fact that the conflict between Russia and America also takes place in space.
Russia may have launched an "inspector satellite" with the ability to perform missions to monitor and potentially shoot down US spy satellites. On August 1, Russia launched the Kosmos-2558 satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Although the purpose of the satellite is unknown it is likely that it is designed to inspect and track other satellites.
Such satellites can be equipped with robotic weapons to capture or destroy enemy satellites, direct energy weapons such as lasers or high-powered microwaves.
Russia previously obscured US spy satellites with satellites that could be armed. In 2020, two Russian satellites maneuvered within 160 kilometers of the US-245 spy satellite, a move the US has criticized as "unusual and disturbing".
Russia has deployed a sizable arsenal of anti-satellite weapons since the Cold War. These include ground-based weapons such as the Peresvet ground-based laser anti-satellite and space weapons such as the Istrebitel Sputnikov interceptor, the Naryad missile-armed satellite and the Skif-DM laser-armed satellite.
Russian doctrine focuses on achieving information dominance in future warfare, in which space resources – with their pivotal role in data transmission and storage – will surely play vital roles.
The Pentagon says China and Russia pose the greatest strategic threat extending to space.
It also points out that Russia is adapting its forces to attack space systems. This doctrine involves the use of weapons such as hypersonic missiles which depend on satellite guidance.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the current international law governing the use of space, lacks detail and does not cover conventional weapons. This lack of political clarity – perhaps deliberate and perhaps sought – has transformed space into another dimension of conflict between nations in some ways similar to what is the ocean and the sea.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-procede-la-guerra-nello-spazio-tra-stati-uniti-e-russia/ on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:24:08 +0000.