America promotes space weapons program

The US will pour billions of dollars to develop space weapons to improve the " global attack " system without deploying more military bases abroad.

According to Reutes news agency , US President George W.Bush on November 13 signed through the defense budget in 2008, including spending to develop future weapons and intelligence systems operating outside. Earth's atmosphere.

The most ambitious project in the budget of $ 459 billion for fiscal year 2008 is Falcon . The focus of this program is the reusable supersonic flight device, with the ability to fly 6 times the speed of sound and carry 5.4 tons of weapons, which can go anywhere in the world. gender in v

US engineers test the model of supersonic equipment (Photo: US Air Force)

no more than 2 hours. The device will be launched into space with a rocket, fly to the target by itself, launch a rocket and then return to Earth. The degree of destruction of missiles with nuclear warheads due to the supersonic firing device is increased many times due to the attraction of the Earth because they can travel 25 times the speed of sound once declared. fire.

The cost for the device has yet to be disclosed, but the agency of the Pentagon's Advanced Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said the first test flight will be conducted next year, according to Telegraph newspaper.

Loren Thompson, a leading defense analyst in Washington, commented that the purpose of the project is to attack sensitive targets in countries like Iran."If we receive intelligence that Korea or Israel is about to be attacked, we want to eliminate the source of attack within minutes, not hours. However, most US military bases are not. satisfying the above requirements , " said Thompson. According to the analyst, the supersonic flying device can do this, ie extinguish the ploy to attack from within the egg . DARPA is also developing a small unmanned launcher device, costing less than US $ 5 million / launch. This is a device that allows to re-launch satellites that have been shot down in space, or used in the case of rapid replacement of damaged satellites.

In the 621-page report on the Bill on Defense Budget Allocation, MPs of both Democrats and Republicans affirmed: "Strengthening these capabilities is crucial, especially when China Successfully tested anti-satellite weapons in January 2007 ". Congress spent $ 150 million on the Falcon project and the "instant global attack" program. A source in the US defense industry said the Pentagon could spend a lot of money on the space war.

(Photo: Telegraph.co.uk)

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