The Space Force spelled out how it plans to fight a war in space in a new document last week, defining and refreshing many terms already familiar to military planners as USSF leaders seek to “normalize” orbital warfare.
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As Space Force leaders grow more vocal and direct in calling for space weapons to control the domain, one official revealed last week that the Space Force has received a major upgrade to one of its few acknowledged space weapons.
Troy Meink, nominee to be Secretary of the Air Force, appeared closely aligned to the Space Force's vision of "space control" and the need for counter-space weapons to ensure U.S. space superiority in future conflicts.
The Space Force “will do whatever it takes” to control the space domain, including destroying adversaries’ satellites when and if necessary, vowed Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman in a keynote address kicking off the AFA Warfare Symposium.
As the Space Force nears its fifth birthday, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman used his appearance at the Spacepower Conference here to forcefully argue his service is needed for warfighting, not merely support functions.
Space Force leaders have become increasingly vocal about the need for responsible counterspace capabilities: weapons and operations that can hold enemies' space assets at risk to deter conflict. And it’s not just words—within the past year, the service has activated several units key to the ...
The Space Force's first-ever targeting unit, 75th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Squadron, scopes out adversary space systems and presents options for neutralizing them.
While China and Russia have ramped up testing of advanced space weaponry in recent years and observers call for the U.S. to develop more offensive capabilities of its own, senior Pentagon officials at the recent Aspen Security Forum highlighted the fine line America faces in ...
Space is a warfighting domain, and to ensure superiority in that domain, the Space Force and U.S. Space Command need to field and demonstrate a full range of capabilities—including counterspace weapons—a new paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a panel of experts ...
WORLD: Highlights from AFA Air Warfare Symposium: USAF fielding Collaborative Combat Aircraft; Saltzman's Theory of Competitive Endurance; USAF Bets on ACE; Recruiting Crisis.
In a March 7 keynote address at the AFA Warfare Symposium, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman laid out his working theory for how the service must operate to be successful, terming it “Competitive Endurance.” “Competitive Endurance,” the CSO told an audience of Guardians, ...
China’s space infrastructure has made it more of a military match for the U.S. than Russia, in terms of space, but Russia presents more of an “unknown,” especially as it’s “boxed into a corner” in its invasion of Ukraine, said a top Space Force intelligence ...
