Bernd de Boosman
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114 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Well in his comments the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Mink, provided absolutely no details on the weapons, how they could be employed or its capabilities or even when it was put into orbit.
But he did say that unnamed adversaries had already sought to dismantle US systems relating to sensing and command and control functions, and that this system was essentially that.
It's something that could be used to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy.
In the past, uh senior people at the Pentagon have previously said that they plan to really boost military capabilities in space, specifically citing Russian and Chinese programs, developing ways to attack and disrupt U.S.
satellites in a future conflict.
So this very well could be something related to that, stopping those efforts from potential adversaries to knock out U.S.
communications and satellites in space.
Yes.
Aaron Powell There's no suggestion of that uh at the moment, at least.
He very much framed this as something that would safeguard US personnel and assets.
So he kind of framed it as a weapon that essentially defensive in nature.
There was a round table with journalists at this event in Maryland uh shortly after his remarks, and he didn't even say that it was kinetic, essentially that it would cause for example.
For example, uh an explosion of any kind.
We do know though that the Trump administration has been very forward about saying that there are plans to put missiles into space, but those are part of what this term the Golden Dome Missile Defense System.
So those are essentially interceptor missiles that would be used to protect the US from missiles coming from overseas or or potentially even other airborne threats.
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Aaron Powell It does.
And this is something that, of course, it's not a a novel idea.
The U.S.
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