Space Standoff: The next Cold War is already playing out right above our heads
There’s a cold war in space and virtually no one knows about it.
By Dallon Adams — July 30, 2016 9:00 AM
Right now, miles above your head, there are fleets of robotic, weaponized satellites poised to do battle as the world’s superpowers await the opening salvo in a very real cosmic chess match.
This might sound like science fiction, but its not. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has enjoyed a quarter century of dominance in satellite technology. This advanced web of GPS satellites has given the U.S. military a great advantage on the battlefield.
However, thanks to robust military investments by Russia and China over the past few decades, this has all changed. Now, a single missile launch could wipe out a satellite and disable the GPS that the U.S. relies on for missile guidance, military operations, and more — so what was once America’s great edge is now a potentially catastrophic vulnerability.
The U.S. is now on the defense, preparing to protect its assets in orbit against a new fleet of high-tech satellites unlike anything the world has ever seen before. This doesn’t bode well for the future, because as history has continuously shown, any technology with potential military applications can (and usually will) spawn an arms race.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/weaponized-satellites-and-the-cold-war-in-space/
I'm getting flashbacks. There should be a remake of Leave it to Beaver any day now.
