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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Plans Space Sensors to Shoot Down Missiles From 'Rogue States'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plans-space-sensors-to-shoot-down-missiles-from-rogue-states?ref=home
Trump Plans Space Sensors to Shoot Down Missiles From Rogue States
Donald Trump is expected to set out a plan Thursday for space-based sensors designed shoot down incoming missiles from rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. The president will present his administrations missile-defense review, which is expected to warn of a significant change to the threat environment since 2010s review. What the missile defense review responds to is an environment in which our potential adversaries have been rapidly developing, and fielding, a much more expanded range of new offensive missiles, said an administration official. These missiles are capable of threatening the United States, threatening our allies, our partners, and our U.S. forces abroad. Trump is expected to use the review as a justification for his so-called Space Force, and say the administration will look at putting a layer of sensors in space to detect enemy missiles when they are launched. The review will commission further study of space-based interceptors and lasers but isnt expected to immediately call for the production of anything specific.
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Trump Plans Space Sensors to Shoot Down Missiles From 'Rogue States' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2019
OP
Why would I want sensors that detect incoming nukes but don't do "anything specific"?
Girard442
Jan 2019
#4
Paladin
(28,277 posts)1. What, a wall won't do the trick? (nt)
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)2. What about...
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)3. "Rogue States" .. like California?
Girard442
(6,086 posts)4. Why would I want sensors that detect incoming nukes but don't do "anything specific"?
I'd rather be blissfully unaware in the last two minutes of my life.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)5. Don't we have satellites that do this?
And isn't there a treaty banning space-based weapons. And since when did he even care about allies, oh, he means Russians.