Another military branch? Space Force!

[DoD1776]

It sounds nutty right? Everyone is joking and giving him shit for it but... imagine this. 35 years from now nuclear warheads are no longer hidden in underground silos or nuclear subs but are actually hidden in orbit waiting to strike and we have a head start on this. However this branch unfolds it will be beneficial at some point in the future. Pros and cons both ways.
https://nbcnews.to/2MD9xL9

 

[Darth]

Are you high?

 

[C3D]

 

[BDinPutnam]

Militarizing space is a bad idea.

Though I can't help but feel it already has been and we need to catch up.

 

[DoD1776]

It’s like Reagan’s plan lmao

 

[E the massive]

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Militarizing space is a bad idea.

Militarizing space is inevitable. It's already begun in a sense.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Unless of course, there is a dome over us and or we really can't get passed the Van Allen belts and the moon landing was a hoax and NASA is lying to us about space and everything....the world is flat and Antarctica encircles the world....

 

[kev74]

Why does this happen when I'm too friggin' old?!?!

 

[BDinPutnam]

Why does this happen when I'm too friggin' old?!?!

FILE under "D for disappointing"

 

[96coal449]

MSM speaks ..... proud as a peacock.

 

[livingston]

Good or bad idea .... for certain the first nation to do so will have the upper hand ... Perhaps for decades

 

[kev74]

Good or bad idea .... for certain the first nation to do so will have the upper hand ... Perhaps for decades

Assuming nobody has been weaponizing space already.

 

[livingston]

Assuming nobody has been weaponizing space already.

I say they already have

 

[kev74]

I say they already have

I concur.

 

[96coal449]

So Star Wars is real?

Who can visualize Cumo wearing the Vader suit? Only Chris is no Luke.

 

[dsdmmat]

 

[Jmac00]

I can't wait to get my very own lightsaber and Phaser.

 

[dsdmmat]

It sounds nutty right? Everyone is joking and giving him shit for it but... imagine this. 35 years from now nuclear warheads are no longer hidden in underground silos or nuclear subs but are actually hidden in orbit waiting to strike and we have a head start on this. However this branch unfolds it will be beneficial at some point in the future. Pros and cons both ways.
https://nbcnews.to/2MD9xL9

Won't need nukes just a couple of dozen tungsten telephone poles in upper earth orbit that can target buildings/bunkers.

 

[Toecutter]

Won't need nukes just a couple of dozen tungsten telephone poles in upper earth orbit that can target buildings/bunkers.

YES!!!!!
Kinetic bombardment - Wikipedia

All the megatons with none of the fallout

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I can't wait to get my very own lightsaber and Phaser.

Not covered by the 2nd amendment don't cha kno? Just muskets eh.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I support it.

Its inevietable that space will be a future battlefield let's get out ahead of China/Russia/india and whoever else to secure our future.

I can see this being something like space and cyber space command.

I like that trump is forward thinking.


Kinetic bombardment (rods from god) giggitty
Electronic warfare
Nukes
Missile defense
Lasers
ICBMs
Satellites
X-37
Cyber attacks and defense
Grid protection, defense and offensive attacks
Some other super secret squirrel stuff that no one knows about

I can see a legit need to unify all these tasks under a common command.


I always think back to the fact that the sr71, u2, Apollo, saturn, etc were all developed in the 50s and 60s and before computers as we know them today. I can only imagine the crap they have in secret development and operation now. The sr71 was an engineering marvel and it was designed with technology that is like 60 years obsolete. Unreal.

Then there is weird crap that is out there

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program - Wikipedia

Pine Gap - Wikipedia

 

[kev74]

Cue the Space Cadet jokes in 5-4-3-2-1.....

 

[Deplorable Me]

On the Marine Corps Commandants recommended reading list for E1, E2, E3

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

On the Marine Corps Commandants recommended reading list for E1, E2, E3

A remember this movie as a young lad....

 

[CaseHardened]

ABOUT TIME !!!!

 

[MadScientist]

Libs were freaking out about this all over the place. If Obama had proposed it, it would be "oh, so progressive!". But we know how that goes

Personally I think its a good idea. At its most basic level it wouldn't be a bad idea to get some kind of defense system up there to tackle shit like rogue asteroids and whatnot. That could decimate the planet. More covert, wouldn't be a bad idea to have systems in place years ahead of other countries. Even if not necessarily in full operation still having decades of research could put us ahead in an arms race.

 

[GOPerfect]

Many said years ago that it was a bad idea to separate the current Branches of the Military as well.

Many thought it too be a bad idea when the Air Force was made its' own entity.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Many said years ago that it was a bad idea to separate the current Branches of the Military as well.

Many thought it too be a bad idea when the Air Force was made its' own entity.

I'd like to see the Continental's again.

 

[CaseHardened]

Star Ship Troopers had a real nice nude Shower Scene.

But dammit, I can't find it to post.

Suppose you have to watch the whole movie to see it.