Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
July 24, 2017
“We must secure the existence of k-pop and a future for cutesie-wutsies.” -Donald J. Trump, President of America
Using Star Wars weapons to fight North Korea is like using an assault rifle to fight an ant, but I’m down for any excuse to improve the space program.
The day national security planners feared and anticipated arrived this month when Kim Jong Un’s regime successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile theoretically capable of hitting Alaska. But with the North’s threat looming larger than ever, the high ground for U.S. ICBM defenses might not be ground at all.
Space-based missile defense has caused political scuffles and faced skepticism in the halls of Washington since the Reagan administration’s ill-fated Strategic Defense Initiative, more infamously known as Star Wars.
Now, the concept is getting new life as North Korea’s fast-paced pursuit of nuclear ICBMs has spurred talk of more missile defense in general. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill see an opening this year to push forward with the long-debated expansion of America’s missile shield in space, including sensors and even interceptors reminiscent of President Reagan’s proposal.
Both the House and Senate have agreed in their annual defense policy bills that the U.S. should pursue what Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, calls the “unblinking eye,” an array of orbiting satellite sensors that could collect high-quality launch data on future ballistic missiles from North Korea or other adversaries.
The tracking data could be used to better direct existing defenses on the ground, from regional defense on the Korean peninsula such as the Lockheed Martin Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or ground-based interceptors on the West Coast. Sullivan spearheaded legislation in the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act that would provide $27.5 million toward the development, launch, and demonstration of the space-based sensor layer.
Kim Jong Un “is aggressively testing the frontiers of their capability and learning and we need to be doing that as well,” Sullivan told the Washington Examiner.
Sullivan rallied bipartisan backing on his bill and says he has the support of top generals and military officials. The recently departed commander of the Missile Defense Agency, Vice Adm. James Syring, has pointed to space tracking as a need, and President Trump, as a candidate, said he supported new missile defense capabilities in space.
“At some point soon, our nation must commit to deployment of a global space-based sensor system with discrimination capability,” Gen. John Hyten, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, testified to the Senate in April.
Trump has ordered the Pentagon to conduct a Ballistic Missile Defense Review, which will likely include space-based sensors, by the end of the year.
Yeah… I don’t think Kim is going to do much.
Daily Reminder: We would already have a full-on colony on the Moon and have at least a couple of guys living on Mars if Hitler had won the war.
But at least we have tranny bathrooms and this:
By the way, an update on my counter-suit against Magdalena Pegowska: she has filed a motion to dismiss my internet lolsuit for sending me a stupid email, but the internet judge, Stefan Molyneux, has dismissed the motion to dismiss. My internet lolyer Sargon of Akkad said of the motion to dismiss: “this has so many fallacies that my eyes started bleeding when I read it.”