US Air Force Plans For Future War in Space, page 1

The U.S. Air Force has filed a futuristic flight plan, one that spells out need for an armada of space weaponry and technology for the near-term and in years to come. Called the Transformation Flight Plan, the 176-page document offers a sweeping look at how best to expand America’s military space tool kit. The use of space is highlighted throughout the report, with the document stating that space superiority combines the following three capabilities: protect space assets, deny adversaries’ access to space, and quickly launch vehicles and operate payloads into space to quickly replace space assets that fail or are damaged/destroyed.From space global laser engagement, air launched anti-satellite missiles, to space-based radio frequency energy weapons and hypervelocity rod bundles heaved down to Earth from space – the U.S.

Air Force flight plan portrays how valued space operations has become for the warfighter and in protecting the nation from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosive attack.A number of space-related transformational capabilities are described in the document. While some of these are seen as needed in the near-term (until 2010), others are described as mid-term efforts in 2010-2015, while some efforts are viewed as far-term, beyond 2015.

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Good post Dream Rebel - that's what I like to see is someone doing some digging for their posts... good find.
Here are some USAF publications that could have interesting articles in them concerning Space war technology....

Vandenberg AFB, The 30th Space Wing's "Space & Missile Times"
Patrick AFB, The 45th Space Wing's "The Missileer"
Shriever AFB, The 50th Space Wing's "The Satellite Flyer"

These plans for the future aren't actually all that new. In '95 the AF started designing a plan for 30 years into the future that heavily involves space.

You can access the official AF document on this subject at www.au.af.mil...

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