In a short conversation with ShockWave Lover he brought up the old anti-sat system that was launched by the F-15 way back during the Star Wars days. The program was canned but I suspect that it simply went classified and continues to this day.
But when you add what was done back then with the new Darpa project, which I believe is simply an attempt to utilize the work that was done in a classified setting and bring into the light, its obvious to me that we have our bases covered when it comes to space warfare.
We can quickly launch replacement sats that are knocked down by threat nations and we have the ability to take their sats out.
Which leads me to the X-37.
If I'm right then that just adds to the confusion surrounding that space plane. Exactly what is it for? What is its mission? It has endurance, its reusable and its maneuverable in space.
Is it part of the US space warfare plans or is it actually just a test vehicle?
This is the one project that we don't talk about that should be front and center..especially to you aviation/space buffs.
