[YONSATU] [Fwd: [AerospaceIndonesia] Perang bintang di millenium baru]

Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:49:18 -0700

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Subject: [AerospaceIndonesia] Perang bintang di millenium baru
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:47:40 -0000
From: "Hadi Winarto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Perang bintang di masa depan. Bagaimana para negara adidaya 
mempersiapkan diri untuk menguasai ruang angkasa? Senjata pemusnah apa 
saja yg sedang dikembangkan saat ini? Baca ceritanya di alamat di bawah 
ini:
http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/features.jsp?id=ns22931

IN A remote valley in New Mexico's Manzano Mountains, the US is 
tooling up for war. Here, in a four-storey building with walls more 
than a metre thick, it runs a secret particle-beam project. The 
weapons it's developing will never be used on Earth because they only 
work in a vacuum. But that's no problem--the idea is to fire them in 
space.

Military strategists have been thinking about orbital combat since 
the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. For the first few years of the space 
race, their ideas were hopelessly impractical and neither side sent 
weapons into space--although cosmonauts carried handguns in case of 
an emergency landing on enemy soil. But soon they began to design, 
build and test various pieces of anti-satellite (ASAT) weaponry. The 
US focused on guided missiles, launched from the air and designed to 
ram the target directly. The Soviets preferred "killer satellites"--
orbiting spacecraft armed with shrapnel charges that could disable   
enemy craft. Both sides also dabbled in nuclear warheads.

In January the US even held a war game based in space. The scenario 
was set in 2018 and involved an enemy state attacking US satellites 
that were supporting a military operation on the ground. The results 
are classified, but the military made its conclusions clear: without 
more funding for space defence, the US faces a Pearl Harbour in orbit.


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