I had to look twice to make sure this story wasn't from the The Onion:
"Russia claims its Electronic Warfare troops can detect and neutralize any target from a ship's system and radar to satellites, rendering ships, planes and missiles useless." It went on to say, "You don't need expensive weapons to win. Powerful radio-electronic jamming is enough."
You can read it for yourself here if you like.
While this story dovetails nicely with my previous post, it seems just a little too far fetched to be believable. First of all, why would the Russians put this story out? Why would they admit to us how advanced they were? Unless....they had reason to believe that the US actually did have the technology to, for example, zap a North Korean missile at launch?
Taking it a step further, do they actually think we really could somehow take down their satellites or aircraft or other systems, too? Or is this story just their pathetic attempt to play "Anything you can do, we can do better"?
I'm wondering now if the hypothesis of my last post might have just received a (tiny) bit of credence? Do the world's Superpowers really have some revolutionary new technology that will make our traditional weapons systems obsolete, or are the surviving Twilight Zone writers back at it again pulling our chain?
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I imagine many of our toys of war, along with the Russians, just wouldn't work. I've heard that two thirds of all nuclear missiles, ours and the Russians, would blow up on the launch pad.
ReplyDeleteHow would anyone know that? And if we knew, why wouldn't we fix the problem?
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ReplyDeleteI read that and never thought of it in that light...Hmmm that is not at all far fetched.
ReplyDeleteI think of early sci-fi when I hear quotes like this.
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